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Vinony

joyless

adjective

  1. sad/cheerless (having/feeling/manifesting no joy)
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English joy Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English joyless From joy + -less.

  1. Without joy; unhappy, sad.

    “Without Joy, my life is joyless!”

    “The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.”