cheerless (adj.)
- affecting
- afflictive
- anguished
- anxious
- apathetic
- bitter
- bleak
- bored
- comfortless
- deplorable
- depressed
- depressing
- depressive
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discontented
- disgusted
- dismal
- dismaying
- dispiriting
- distressful
- distressing
- dolorous
- dreary
- forlorn
- funereal
- grievous
- grim
- hopeless
- humorless
- joyless
- lamentable
- mirthless
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- nauseated
- nauseous
- oppressive
- painful
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- poignant
- regrettable
- rueful
- sad
- sharp
- somber
- sore
- sorrowful
- sorry
- touching
- uncheerful
- uncomfortable
- uneasy
- unfulfilled
- ungratified
- unhappy
- unhopeful
- unquiet
- unsatisfied
- unsmiling
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched