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词汇 joyless
释义 joyless
adjective
uk /ˈdʒɔɪ.ləs/ us /ˈdʒɔɪ.ləs/
unhappy: 情绪低落,不高兴
Jane is trapped in a joyless marriage.简陷入不幸的婚姻中。
Synonym
unhappy
Opposites
joyful
joyousliterary
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

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joyless | American Dictionary


joyless
adjective
us/ˈdʒɔɪ·ləs/
being without happiness or pleasure:
a joyless marriage

Examples of joyless


joyless
The days go by in a joyless procession, my life will flash past without a smile.
For local government this has been a cold and joyless spring.
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It was a grim, joyless and highly restricted day.
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The children experience boredom and joyless drifting, which goes on day after day.
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The story is a joyless one of high charges, exploitation and bitterness that springs from a deep injustice, which is felt widely.
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It is a joyless subject.
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Whether the relationship was loving or joyless, tender or brutal, fulfilling or empty, many women simply had no choice and some of them lived in fear of yet another pregnancy.
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She is a bossy, strident housewife, coping with the difficulties of rationing, near-slum housing and a drab, joyless environment.
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He left home when he was 15, calling himself a solitary soul, wandering through the world, a homeless, joyless outcast.
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His society marriage is loveless, and the social life he once found absorbing has become empty and joyless.
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I'll miss his joyless scold of a middle manager but it's nice to have the gang reunited.
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The townsfolk in the story are hard-working and diligent, but joyless and unimaginative.
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His palette is joyless, and almost melancholy, and in his technique he is strongly influenced by the impressionists.
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Her name is an ironic misnomer, as her life is joyless.
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But if the "mitzvah" was joyless then the angel too will be dispirited.
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