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# joyless

«joyless» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **without joy, dull and sad** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more joyless, most joyless)

### meaning for a pupil

Joyless means without joy, dull and sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means that King Jehoram died with no one sad to lose him. No mourning fire was lit for him and he was not buried among the kings. Interpretation: The tradition reads this as the sign of a wicked king, who was not honored in death. In the primary lessons: in the lessons, a joyless place or life is grey and miserable, with no happiness in it

### examples

- Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed joyless; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. (Writings 2CH.21.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/#x1)
- The joyless house was grey and quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/#x2)
- They lived a joyless life after the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/#x3)
- The shades led a joyless existence in the dark land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «joyless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.