Difference between Dark and Cheerless

DARK vs CHEERLESS: NOUN

Absence of light.
A place having little or no light.
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
An obscured or unenlightened state or condition; obscurity; a state of ignorance: as, I am still in the dark regarding his intentions.
A state of concealment; secrecy: as, things done in the dark.
A dark hue; a dark spot or part.
An unenlightened state
An unilluminated area
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Absence of moral or spiritual values
A dark place.
The absence of light; darkness.
An obsolete form of darg.
Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
A deep hue or color.
Night; nightfall.
Absence of light or illumination

Served without milk or cream.
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Sullen or threatening.
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Unknown or concealed; mysterious.
Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture.
Morally corrupt; vicious.
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black.
Lacking brightness.
Lacking or having very little light.
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Causing dejection
Showing a brooding ill humor
Marked by difficulty of style or expression
(used of color) having a dark hue
Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Not giving performances; closed
Evil in nature or effect; sinister.
Secret
Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Having richness or depth.

Unenlightened, either mentally or spiritually; characterized by backwardness in learning, art, science, or religion; destitute of knowledge or culture; ignorant; uninstructed; rude: uncivilized: as, the dark places of the earth; the dark ages.
Morally black; atrocious; wicked; sinister.
To make dark; darken; obscure.
To remain in the dark; lurk; lie hidden or concealed.
To grow or become dark; darken.
In the dark; without light.
Hence Concealed; secret; mysterious; inscrutable as, keep it dark.
Obscure; not easily perceived or understood; difficult to interpret or explain: as, a dark saying; a dark passage in an author.
Threatening; frowning; gloomy; morose: as, a dark scowl.
Blind; sightless.
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Shadowed or black
Wicked or dishonorable
Not giving performances
Closed
Lacking in light or brightness; shaded; obscure: as, a dark day; the dark recesses of a forest.
Not fair: applied to the complexion: as, the dark-skinned races.
Not radiating or reflecting light; wholly or partially black or gray in appearance; having the quality opposite to light or white: as, a dark object; a dark color.
Without light; marked by the absence of light; unilluminated; shadowy: as, a dark night; a dark room.
Characterized by or producing gloom; dreary; cheerless: as, a dark time in the affairs of the country.
(idiom) (in the dark) In secret.
(idiom) (in the dark) In a state of ignorance; uninformed.

Without joy, gladness, or comfort; gloomy; destitute of anything to enliven or animate the spirits.

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

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Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes.
Our dark times were definitely dark but through ruin comes creation.
Dark Armor set that makes you look like Dark Link.
As said earlier Facebook can be a dark dark place.
How dark is too dark as a matter of law?
At the time of this accident the plaintiffs were walking in the dark, on a dark road, wearing dark clothes.
Dark ink includes black, dark blue, dark purple, dark green or dark brown.

Why are you coming home so cheerless and so joyless?.
Cheerless, functional but very cheap and right outside the station; some rooms without toilets.
CALENDER, polish, gloss, burnish, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, furbish, give a glossy surface to.
Some plan it simple, sighed, the teenagers emitted in unison a cheerless mating howl.
This house was altogether too large and cheerless for two people, especially at Christmas.
How truly consistent is the cowardice of suicide with such a cheerless creed!
Again he remained before the cheerless, empty fireplace until sleep overcame him.
Frenchman the cheerless prospect of being attacked on both sides.
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.