Joyless

Synonyms for "joyless" (172 found)

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Closest matches (35)

Strong matches (51)

Related words (86)

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Translations

15 translations across 11 languages.

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Ancient Greek

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  • ἀγηθής adj (without joy)

Bulgarian

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  • мрачен adj (without joy)
  • тъжен adj (without joy)

Esperanto

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  • senĝoja adj (without joy)

Georgian

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  • გაუხარებელი adj (without joy)
  • უსიხარულო adj (without joy)

German

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  • freudlos adj (without joy)

Irish

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  • dúchroíoch adj (without joy)

Lithuanian

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  • bedžiaugsmis adj (without joy)

Old English

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  • wynlēas adj (without joy)

Polish

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  • bezradosny adj (without joy)

Spanish

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  • amargado adj (without joy)
  • triste adj (without joy)

Turkish

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  • keyifsiz adj (without joy)
  • neşesiz adj (without joy)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

According to David Frum, the US Republican Party staged a convention which was their most listless and most joyless in twenty years, but Elizabeth Warren characterized that convention as the nastiest and most divisive in half a century.

Source: tatoeba (5293267)

Other Jewish subgroups often stereotype Ashkenazim as boring and joyless.

Source: tatoeba (11079742)

Without Joy, my life is joyless!

Source: wiktionary

The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.

Source: wiktionary

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