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Dreary Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Dreary?
[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
[adj] lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dreary: cheerless | dingy | dismal | drab | drear | dull | gloomy | sorry | uncheerful Related Terms | Find terms related to Dreary: acier | affecting | afflictive | apocalyptic | arid | ashen | ashy | bad | baleful | banausic | baneful | barren | bitter | black | blah | blank | bleak | bloodless | blue | bodeful | boding | boring | broken-record | canescent | characterless | cheerless | cinereous | cinerous | cold | colorless | comfortless | dapple | dappled | dappled-gray | dapple-gray | dark | dead | deplorable | depressed | depressing | depressive | dim | dingy | dire | discomforting | dismal | dismaying | dispiriting | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | doomful | dove-colored | dove-gray | downcast | drab | draggy | drear | drearisome | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | effete | elephantine | empty | etiolated | everlasting | evil | evil-starred | fade | fateful | flat | foreboding | forlorn | funebrial | funereal | glaucescent | glaucous | gloomy | glum | grave | gray | gray-black | gray-brown | gray-colored | gray-drab | grayed | gray-green | grayish | gray-spotted | gray-toned | gray-white | grievous | grim | griseous | grizzle | grizzled | grizzly | harping | heavy | ho-hum | hollow | humdrum | ill | ill-boding | ill-fated | ill-omened | ill-starred | inane | inauspicious | inexcitable | insipid | invariable | iron-gray | jejune | jog-trot | joyless | lamentable | leaden | lead-gray | lifeless | livid | long-winded | lowering | low-spirited | melancholy | menacing | miserable | monotone | monotonous | morose | mournful | mouse-colored | mouse-gray | mousy | moving | of evil portent | ominous | oppressive | ordinary | painful | pale | pallid | pathetic | pearl | pearl-gray | pearly | pedestrian | piteous | pitiable | plodding | poignant | pointless | poky | ponderous | portending | portentous | prolix | prosaic | Quaker-colored | regrettable | rueful | run-of-the-mill | sad | saddening | saturnine | sharp | silver | silvered | silver-gray | silvery | singsong | sinister | slate-colored | slaty | slow | smoke-gray | smoky | sober | solemn | somber | sombrous | sore | sorrowful | spiritless | steel-gray | steely | sterile | stiff | stodgy | stone-colored | stuffy | superficial | tasteless | taupe | tedious | threatening | tiresome | tiring | touching | treadmill | triste | uncomfortable | uneventful | unexciting | unfavorable | unfortunate | unhappy | uninteresting | unlively | unlucky | unpromising | unpropitious | untoward | unvarying | vapid | weariful | wearisome | weary | wearying | woebegone | woeful | wooden | wretched See Also | Dreary In Webster's Dictionary \Drear"y\, a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl. {Dreariest}.]
[OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre['o]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig,
and prob. to AS. dre['o]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf.
{Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] `` Dreary shrieks.''
--Spenser.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
comfortless; dismal; gloomy. `` Dreary shades.'' --Dryden.
``The dreary ground.'' --Prior.
Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble.
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
part of that dreary interval which separated two
ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.
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