cheerless

英 [ˈtʃɪələs]

美 [ˈtʃɪrləs]

adj.  阴冷的; 阴暗的; 阴郁的

BNC.32779 / COCA.29952

同义词辨析

gloomycheerlessdepressing【导航词义：阴郁的】

牛津词典

adj.

• 阴冷的；阴暗的；阴郁的
  without warmth or colour so it makes you feel depressed
  1. a dark and cheerless room
     黑暗阴森的房间

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (地方或天气)沉闷的，令人不快的
  Cheerlessplaces or weather are dull and depressing.
  1. The kitchen was dank and cheerless.
     厨房既潮湿又阴暗。
  2. ...a bleak, cheerless day.
     阴冷、惨淡的一天

英英释义

adj

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  1. the economic outlook is depressing
  2. something cheerless about the room
  3. a moody and uncheerful person
  4. an uncheerful place
  Synonym:depressinguncheerful

双语例句

• Bridging Reference: A Scenario-based Account; Against this cheerless backdrop The Boss of It All makes sense.
  搭桥参照：以图景为基础的解释方法对照这个凄凉的背景，「真假老板」显得顺理成章。
• The reason I don't like the third one is I don't like animals on the pictures and I think it looks too cold and cheerless.
  我不喜欢第三个是因为我不喜欢有动物的画而且我认为它看起来太冷清。
• Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.
  展望新年，巴西人心情沮丧，甚至连总统都承认明年困难重重，不容乐观。
• It was a very dubious-looking, nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
  这是一个非常朦胧的、且非常黑暗而阴沉的夜晚，天气冷彻肌肤，了无生趣。
• It afforded her a little relief, of a dull and cheerless kind.
  这使她感到几分宽慰，不过这是一种索然无味而又凄然的宽慰罢了。
• It was a cold, cheerless, grey sort of morning.
  这是一个阴郁、灰暗而寒冷早晨。
• As a new comer, frankly, it's a little bit cold and cheerless here.
  作为一个新来的人，坦白说我觉得这里有点冷漠无趣。
• I cannot accept your praises, he interrupted hurriedly; on the contrary, I am always reproaching myself; but it is an uninteresting and cheerless subject.
  我不能接受您的赞扬，他慌忙打断她的话，相反，我一直在自我责备，不过说这些太乏味、太没意思了。
• It was the end of November and the day was very cheerless.
  已经是十一月底了，天色十分阴暗。
• They live in a bare, cheerless apartment in downtown New york.
  他们住在纽约市中心一间四壁空空、阴暗惨淡的公寓里。