Joy·less, a. Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy*less*ly, adv. -- Joy*less*ness, n.
     With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.   --Dryden.
     Youth and health and war are joyless to him.   --Addison.
  [He] pining for the lass,
  Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.   --Dryden.
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  joylessness
       n : a feeling of dismal cheerlessness