Cheerless, a.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser.
Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
Shades of meaning
Fernald lists cheerless only as an antonym, under comfortable.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.
Synonyms
none given