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Webster 1828 Edition


Uncheerful

UNCHEE'RFUL

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Adj.
Not cheerful; sad.

Definition 2024


uncheerful

uncheerful

English

Adjective

uncheerful (comparative more uncheerful, superlative most uncheerful)

  1. Not cheerful.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7:
      But by the change of her unchearefull looke, / They might perceive she was not well in plight […].
    • 2007 November 30, “Familiar With Emo, Intimate With Upbeat”, in New York Times:
      For now, though, Paramore gets by on good cheer, even during seemingly uncheerful songs.

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