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