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Definition: Uncheerful |
UncheerfulAdjective1. Lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncheerful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Synonym: UncheerfulSynonym: cheerless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cheerful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uncheerful |
| English words defined with "uncheerful": cheerless. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "uncheerful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | безрадостный (black as ink, cheerless, joyless, mirthless, winterly, wintry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-l-n-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cheerful, furuncle. | |
-3 letters: lucerne, luncher. | |
-4 letters: crenel, curule, euchre, eunuch, fencer, ferule, fleche, fleech, flench, french, fueler, lecher, lucern, refuel, rueful, uncurl, unfree, unfurl, unreel. | |
-5 letters: cheer, churl, churn, creel, cruel, enure, fence, fleer, hence, leech, lucre, lunch, lurch, refel, ruche, ulcer, uncle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 68 65 65 72 66 75 6C |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. .... . . .-. ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c h e e r f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 0068 0065 0065 0072 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55806974717184728778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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