Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in an unhappy manner;
- Example: "he cheerlessly set out to do the task"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv.
-- Cheer"less*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
--Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate;
dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cheerlessly
adv 1: in an unhappy manner; "he cheerlessly set out to do the
task" [ant: cheerfully]