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In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
Andrew Garfield

Meaning of "joyless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF JOYLESS

joyless  [ˈdʒɔɪlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JOYLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Joyless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES JOYLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of joyless in the English dictionary

The definition of joyless in the dictionary is having or producing no joy or pleasure.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JOYLESS


amaryllis
ˌæməˈrɪlɪs
Baylis
ˈbeɪlɪs
bodiless
ˈbɒdɪlɪs
cilice
ˈsɪlɪs
digitalis
ˌdɪdʒɪˈteɪlɪs
fontinalis
ˌfɒntɪˈneɪlɪs
gracilis
ˈɡræsɪlɪs
Halys
ˈheɪlɪs
merciless
ˈmɜːsɪlɪs
moneyless
ˈmʌnɪlɪs
neurosyphilis
ˌnjʊərəʊˈsɪfɪlɪs
penniless
ˈpɛnɪlɪs
physalis
faɪˈseɪlɪs
pitiless
ˈpɪtɪlɪs
remediless
ˈremədɪlɪs
syphilis
ˈsɪfɪlɪs
Willis
ˈwɪlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JOYLESS

joy
joy stick
joyance
Joyce
Joycean
joyful
joyfully
joyfulness
joylessly
joylessness
joyous
joyously
joyousness
joypop
joypopped
joypopper
joypopping
joyridden
joyride
joyriding

WORDS THAT END LIKE JOYLESS

berryless
bottomless
cloyless
decayless
hobbyless
honeyless
juryless
keyless
less
much less
playless
propertyless
puttyless
rayless
stainless
stayless
toyless
treatyless
victoryless
wayless

Synonyms and antonyms of joyless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «JOYLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «joyless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of joyless

Translation of «joyless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JOYLESS

Find out the translation of joyless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of joyless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «joyless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin alegría
570 millions of speakers

English

joyless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उदास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكدر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безрадостным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem alegria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিরানন্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

triste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gembira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

freudlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

つまらない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기쁘지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seneng banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không vui
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

joyless
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निराश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

neşesiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza gioia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bez radości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безрадісним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lipsit de bucurie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περίλυπος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreugdelose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

joyless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gledesløs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of joyless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JOYLESS»

The term «joyless» is normally little used and occupies the 117.581 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JOYLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «joyless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «joyless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about joyless

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4 QUOTES WITH «JOYLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word joyless.
1
Robert Fripp
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
2
Andrew Garfield
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
3
John Ortberg
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
4
Dorothy L. Sayers
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JOYLESS»

Discover the use of joyless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to joyless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in ...
Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears.
Patrice Petro, 1989
2
Gittinomics: Living the Good Life Without Money Stress, ...
For everyone who knows economics is important but doesn'treallyknow why,Gittinomicsis the indispensable, plain-speaking, entertaining and highly relevant guide to the economics of our everyday lives.
Ross Gittins, 2007
3
Hooked on Growth: Economic Addictions and the Environment
Tibor Scitovsky, The Joyless Economy: An Inquiry into Human Satisfaction and Consumer Dissatisfaction (New York, Oxford University Press, 1976). 11. Scitovsky, The Joyless Economy, 15-22. 12. Scitovsky, The Joyless Economy, 23. 13.
Douglas E. Booth, 2004
4
Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
The fact that The Joyless Street proved to be a theatrical success, as well as a turning point in the career of the director and some of his cast members, does not, however, mean that the film adaptation was met only with positive reviews when it ...
Noah William Isenberg, 2009
5
Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions
The. Joyless. Polity. Contributions. of. Democratic. Processes. to. Ill-Being. Robert E. Lane There IS A Malaise haunting advanced market democracies throughout the world, a malaise that mocks the eighteenth-century guarantee of a right to ...
Stephen L. Elkin, Karol Edward Soltan, 2010
6
Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945
5. A. Joyless. Victory. TV,. ie fall and early winter of 1943 were marked by unusually cold weather. The cold of the weather was matched by the chill affecting German morale in this period. Before the year was out, the chill of the weather forced ...
Earl R. Beck, 1999
7
Economics, Values, and Organization
The. joyless. market. economy. Robert E. Lane If we do not live in a happy society , why not? Do markets, indeed, make happy societies? The thesis of this chapter is twofold: First, the one source of happiness that is within the power of markets ...
Avner Ben-Ner, Louis Putterman, 1999
8
The Destiny of Modern Societies: The Calvinist ...
Representing what critics (Mencken 1982) describe as the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” and joyful, notably has pleasure, Calvinist Puritanism (re) makes America as a “joyless” and inhumane economic and social  ...
Milan Zafirovski, 2009
9
Animal Rights and Wrongs
Pitiless people and joyless people alike awaken our disapproval. True, Nietzsche mounted an assault on pity and on the 'herd morality' which he supposed to be contained in it. But most people remain unpersuaded, and rightly so. For pity and  ...
Roger Scruton, 1998
10
Stories That Feed Your Soul
8. LIVING. IN. A. JOYLESS. WORLD. I was in an elevator in the Hyatt hotel in Chicago, Illinois. A fellow passenger was a teenager who looked to be about 15 or 16 years of age. He was wearing his pants low in that new “ghetto” style that has ...
Tony Campolo, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JOYLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term joyless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Different Eid for a mother - Prothom Alo
Noorjahan Begum passed joyless Eids in last 37 years. She was sad on the Eid days. However, this year, she wants to stay happy in this Eid as ... «Prothom Alo, Jul 15»
2
Slew of cases robs BNP leaders of Eid joy, families say - bdnews24 …
“This Eid is joyless for us,” he said. Another Standing Committee Member Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has been behind bars for months on ... «Bangladesh News 24 hours, Jul 15»
3
EastEnders police arrest Ben Mitchell for Lucy Beale murder by JIM …
Ben is in a league of his own though, thanks to an ugly, joyless, bitterness that is unrelenting and becomes more unpleasant each time Ben has ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Woody Allen explores murder, morality in 'Irrational Man' - News …
For himself, Allen said he has come to find fame and fortune empty and joyless." "The only payoff is the act of making the film," he said. «WNWN-FM, Jul 15»
5
Miss Farewell: the beauty contest to die for - The Local
Undertaking is often seen as a joyless profession. But a new beauty contest in Germany is attempting to breathe fresh air into a 'dying' industry. «The Local.de, Jul 15»
6
New York Classical Review » Blog Archive » Delightful Dvořák and …
Hymne was a joyless exercise, while the dazzling, phantasmagorical Chronochromie was grudging and grim—the well-played percussion ... «New York Classical Review, Jul 15»
7
Ants Everywhere: Ant-Man Reviewed - Willamette Week
Basically, they've evolved into either joyless and brooding frown-fests molded after Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, or they go the ... «Willamette Week, Jul 15»
8
The surprisingly colourful Guy Maddin
There's something really sombre and joyless in the musicals of communist propaganda. One of the first movie review jobs I got, when I was ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
9
'The Great Fish Swap': How America Is Downgrading Its Seafood …
GROSS: And to me, it was just a joyless fish. It was kind of bitter. It was thin. It was kind of, like, black in part of it. It didn't even look like a fish I ... «WJCT NEWS, Jul 15»
10
CD review | Muse still living in the past with Drones | The Columbus …
The title track is a choral number, joyless and literal and without much to say about its subject other than the obvious (“Now you can kill / From ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»

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