Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affording no pleasure or delight; cheerless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Void of delight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Void of
delight .
Etymologies
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delight + -less
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Examples
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I fancy it was delightless to the husband as to the wife - just turning her twenty-first year, and learning for the first time in her sheltered life the taste of privation.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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