unjoyous

English

Etymology

un- +‎ joyous

Adjective

unjoyous (comparative more unjoyous, superlative most unjoyous)

  1. Not joyous.
    • 1772, Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, A Treatise on the Art of Dancing‎:
      It is from the animal joy of mechanics or peasants in their cessations from labor, or from their celebration of festivals, that the artist will select his matter of composition; not from any circumstances of unjoyous poverty or loathsome distress.
    • 1878, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter‎:
      On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town, that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.
    • 1912, William J. Locke, The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol‎:
      In a few moments we were whirling along the straight, white road between the interminable black vineyards, and past the dilapidated homesteads of the vine-folk and wayside cafes that are scattered about this unjoyous corner of France.
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