Usually means: Without pleasure, happiness, or cheer.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word joylessly:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. joylessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. joylessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joylessly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. joylessly: Vocabulary.com
  5. joylessly: Wordnik
  6. joylessly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. joylessly: Wiktionary
  8. joylessly: Dictionary.com
  9. joylessly: Rhymezone
  10. joylessly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. joylessly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. joylessly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. joylessly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. joylessly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a joyless manner.

Similar:
mirthlessly, cheerlessly, heartlessly, desolately, funlessly, spiritlessly, lustlessly, unpathetically, pitilessly, despairfully, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, happily, cheerfully, merrily

Types:
joyfully, more...

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Similar:
mirthlessly, cheerlessly, heartlessly, desolately, funlessly, spiritlessly, lustlessly, unpathetically, pitilessly, despairfully, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, happily, cheerfully, merrily

Types:
joyfully, more...



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