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.

Derived terms

• uncheerfully
• uncheerfulness