Cheer·less, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
  -- Cheer*less*ly, adv. -- Cheer*less*ness, n.
     My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.   --Spenser.
  Syn: -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
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  cheerlessly
       adv : in an unhappy manner; "he cheerlessly set out to do the
             task" [ant: cheerfully]