CHEERLESSNESS Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

cheerlessness

noun

Definition of cheerlessness

as in melancholy

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Noun

Beneath all the sensuality and beauty, there’s also a lingering melancholy that feels very familiar to me.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
Don Hertzfeldt occasionally comes to mind for a similarly pervasive mood of questioning, philosophical melancholy.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 June 2026

Definition of melancholy

Noun

Rich might have been afraid of putting too much explanatory weight on a writer’s existential boredom (or horniness).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The discomfort of boredom often becomes the spark for curiosity, creativity, independence and discovering lifelong interests.

— Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 16 July 2026

Definition of boredom

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My audience would laugh one instant, and then with the alchemical dark arts of my verbal prowess, they’d be volta’d into grief and ennui with breakneck speed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Before there was The Office—British or American—there was Office Space, Mike Judge’s razor-sharp satire of middle-American corporate ennui.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Definition of ennui

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