Usually means: Lacking joy or amusement; grim.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word mirthless:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mirthless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mirthless: Merriam-Webster
  3. mirthless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mirthless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mirthless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mirthless: Vocabulary.com
  7. mirthless: Wordnik
  8. mirthless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mirthless: Wiktionary
  10. mirthless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mirthless, mirthless: Dictionary.com
  12. Mirthless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. mirthless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. mirthless: Rhymezone
  15. Mirthless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. mirthless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. mirthless: FreeDictionary.org
  18. mirthless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. mirthless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. mirthless: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

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▸ adjective:  Lacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.

Similar:
joyless, unamused, sportless, blitheless, cheerless, gladless, humorless, laughterless, lack-laughter, blissless, more...

Opposite:
joyful, cheerful, happy, gleeful, blissful

Types:
joyless, sad, gloomy, melancholy, glum, dour, saturnine, glowering, more...



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Similar:
joyless, unamused, sportless, blitheless, cheerless, gladless, humorless, laughterless, lack-laughter, blissless, more...

Opposite:
joyful, cheerful, happy, gleeful, blissful

Types:
joyless, sad, gloomy, melancholy, glum, dour, saturnine, glowering, more...



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