English

Adjective

unjoyous ‎(comparative more unjoyous, superlative most unjoyous)

1. Not joyous.
   • 1772, Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, A Treatise on the Art of Dancing:

     It is from the animal joy of mechanics or peasants in their cessations from labor, or from their celebration of festivals, that the artist will select his matter of composition; not from any circumstances of unjoyous poverty or loathsome distress.

   • 1878, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:

     On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town, that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.

   • 1912, William J. Locke, The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol:

     In a few moments we were whirling along the straight, white road between the interminable black vineyards, and past the dilapidated homesteads of the vine-folk and wayside cafes that are scattered about this unjoyous corner of France.