sadless

From sad +‎ -less.

sadless (comparative more sadless, superlative most sadless)

1. (rare) Without sadness.
   • 1873, Dittmann, Frederick, Let us have peace ..‎^[1], page 45:

     Like a dove with the olive branch the news has been welcomed at every house, only in my humble cottage there is sadless grief!

   • 1842 October 8, New York Mirror; A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts 1842-10-08: Vol 20 Iss 41‎^[2], page 323:

     Life’s sadless harmonies roll on, [...] And pour one choral hymn: [...] Oh, soul of strength, assume thy sceptre; [...] Hear —lest thy faith grow dim.

   • 1986, Rhodri Jones, One World Poets‎^[3], page 53:

     This also passes as dusk descends [...] and a friendly crescent moon [...] appears where the jets were [...] Then simmering silence  – the day passes  – [...] And the curling black smoke, [...] the sadless hearts and the mangled [...] bodies stacked in the morgue [...] become memorials of this day.

   • 2006, Colom, Francesc, Psychoeducation manual for bipolar disorder‎^[4], page 86:

     On the other hand, we know that bipolar depression is characterized by alterations that are more behavioral (apathy, anergy, hypersomnia) than cognitive. So we should alert our patients about the existence of “sadless depression,” because if patients use depressive sadness as a standard rule, they fre¬ quently get help too late when they are depressed.

   • 1994, David B. Cohen, Out of the Blue‎^[5], page 157:

     Some investigators consider sadless depression to be a core condition — a somatic common denominator recognizable throughout the world.

   • 1869, E. C. A, Count Teleki : a story of modern Jewish life and customs‎^[6], page n144:

     How well remembered in after-life were those quiet walks, beneath the frowning mountain passes, when heart beat with heart in joyful unison; those twilight rows upon the Genevan lake, calm and still as love itself; the often upward turning of that beauteous face wreathed in smiles, or bathed in sadless tears; the silent pressure of that hand, the tender confidence of the beloved, so bewitching in the bud of marriage; the gleeful chats on the happy future, opening on both like the view of Canaan to the prophet of old; the thousand and one rosy tints with which Venus decks her early morn!

   • 1919, southern churchman‎^[7], page n266:

     If singing breath or echoing chord [...] To every hidden pang were given, [...] What sadless melodies were poured, [...] As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!

   • 1888 June 23, Good Housekeeping 1888-06-23: Vol 7 Iss 4‎^[8], page n23:

     The child is knitting. The open door [...] Wooes her, tempts her more and more. [...] The sky is cloudless, the air is sweet, [...] And sadless restless the bare brown feet. [...] Still, as she wishes her task were done, [...] She counts the rounds off, one by one.