Explore Joyless through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like funereal or unhappy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Joyless in a sentence
Joyless meaning
Without joy; unhappy, sad.
Synonyms of Joyless
Using Joyless
- The main meaning on this page is: Without joy; unhappy, sad.
- Useful related words include: funereal, unhappy, sorrowful, uncheerful.
- In the example corpus, joyless often appears in combinations such as: joyless and, as joyless, the joyless.
Context around Joyless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Joyless
- In this selection, "joyless" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mostly, bones, playing, tone, prude and jobsworths stand out and add context to how "joyless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and mostly joyless tone and arduous a joyless slog. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "joyless" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with joyless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No one wants to be viewed as a joyless prude or a bigot. (13 words)
Their British counterparts, meanwhile, are repressed right down to their bones, joyless and insipid. (14 words)
This is the endless modern limbo of Newcastle: utterly joyless, utterly sapping and utterly hopeless. (15 words)
Wasteful too of opportunity, and of our pleas at the time for innovative housing, renewable energy, decent public transport or just something breathtakingly lovely to sweeten the joyless aftermath. (29 words)
But she and Harry do have to submit to the same joyless experience of having every financial move cleared by an accountant or lawyer with U.S. tax expertise. (29 words)
Quite the reverse, the greater his professional success, the more reckless and joyless were his casual affairs and the more entrenched his delusion that his 'Boys' suspected nothing. (28 words)
Example sentences (17)
And refreshingly, the lesbian romance is a nonissue for Leah’s family and the Haredi characters aren’t presented as repressive or joyless.
On top of that, the story as a whole had a somewhat bleak and mostly joyless tone.
Their British counterparts, meanwhile, are repressed right down to their bones, joyless and insipid.
No one wants to be viewed as a joyless prude or a bigot.
Quite the reverse, the greater his professional success, the more reckless and joyless were his casual affairs and the more entrenched his delusion that his 'Boys' suspected nothing.
Science has been attacked as joyless and soulless, an attempt by some malevolent elite caste that uses its unique language to control others.
Ignore the joyless jobsworths (except, you know, checking about people’s allergies) and celebrate good scents.
It’s a joyless existence, one not much brightened by the arrival of Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) and his neurasthenic wife.
Since he succeeded Mauricio Pochettino, his team have produced few decent performances never mind any signature performances, playing joyless, guileless football in the process.
The portrait of parenthood they presented to Judith was that it was arduous, a joyless slog.
This is the endless modern limbo of Newcastle: utterly joyless, utterly sapping and utterly hopeless.
Wasteful too of opportunity, and of our pleas at the time for innovative housing, renewable energy, decent public transport or just something breathtakingly lovely to sweeten the joyless aftermath.
But she and Harry do have to submit to the same joyless experience of having every financial move cleared by an accountant or lawyer with U.S. tax expertise.
I can sense the shaming, criticism and condescension coming my way, let me be clear: I am not a joyless person.
There are, of course, exceptions (because Mann is always trying different things), but for the most part these are joyless pictures.
They didn’t force their party to pledge allegiance to the most extreme positions, or turn politics into a joyless exercise in orthodoxy.
Indeed, it is not that much different from the life they led on Earth: joyless, friendless and uncomfortable.
Common combinations with joyless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- joyless and 2×
- as joyless 2×
- the joyless 2×