rejoiceless
English
Etymology
From rejoice + -less.
Adjective
rejoiceless (comparative more rejoiceless, superlative most rejoiceless)
- Without rejoicing
- 2002, Donald Revell, Arcady, page 70:
- Terror guarded the mid-region
Where everything was Greeks
And I needed to risk it
In the dark
And rejoiceless heart
Of helplessness
- 2007, Margaret Diane Stetz, Cheryl Ann Wilson, Michael Field and their world, page 187:
- Feminine doves, also suggesting the form of the Holy Spirit, nest in these "Caves of Passion," which are "voiceless," yet not "rejoiceless."
- 2015, Father Yours, *John 6:66, Eternity with the TRINITY Vs Eternity with the Beast:
- To laugh off tempts to going overly 'blue' (any rejoiceless spirits), depressed, deflated, etc. “The One whose throne is in heavens sits laughing” (Ps 2:4) refers to God.
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Antonyms
- rejoiceful