uncheered

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adjective

Not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveuncheered (comparative more uncheered, superlative most uncheered)

comparative more uncheered · superlative most uncheered

  1. Not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.

    Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]

    1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 145
    1 more example

    And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. Not cheered or applauded.

Origin

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