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n. - Not conducive to good spirits; A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Adjective : a cheerful person. ,cheerful surroundings. ,cheerful songs. ,cheerful giving
  • Recognize the risks, right and left, the risks brought by pastoral activities and interests, and those brought by pastoral loneliness and uncheerfulness.
  • Except -- that, no matter how cheerful and unsuspicious my disposition may be, when I go to the American Museum of Natural History, dark cynicisms arise the moment I come to...
  • Brentford, and the furious resolution of the two Houses not to admit any treaty for peace, those indispositions, which had before touched him, grew into a perfect habit of...
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