different between cheerless vs darksome
cheerless
English
Etymology
cheer +? -less
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)l?s
Adjective
cheerless (comparative more cheerless, superlative most cheerless)
- Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sad
- Antonym: cheerful
Derived terms
- cheerlessly
- cheerlessness
Anagrams
- Scheelers, rechlesse
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darksome
English
Etymology
From dark +? -some.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??ks?m/
Adjective
darksome (comparative more darksome, superlative most darksome)
- (poetic) Characterised by darkness; gloomy; obscure
- 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Love
- That sometimes from the savage den,
And sometimes from the darksome shade,
And sometimes staring up at once
In green and sunny glade.
- That sometimes from the savage den,
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XII, pages 221-222
- […] to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, […]
- Synonyms: shaded, cheerless
- 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Love
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