Etymology: [ 'drir-E ] (adjective.) before 12th century. From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“dreary, sad, sorrowful, mournful, pensive, causing grief, cruel, horrid, grievous, bloody, blood-stained, gory, glorious”), from Proto-Germanic *driuzigaz, *drūzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreus- (“to break, break off, crumble”). Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless, Grievous, dire; appalling, drear, dreary, gloomy, depressing, dismal; tedious, boring, If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. a dreary little town in the Midwest = dismal + drearily dreari·ly a drearily familiar scenario. dull and making you feel sad or bored, 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, 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", Sorrowful; distressful, Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy, dreariment, comparative of dreary, superlative of dreary, In a dreary manner, dismally, gloomily, in a depressing manner, Gloomily; dismally, Dismalness; gloomy solitude, extreme dullness, The characteristic of being dreary, Sorrow; wretchedness, sadness, depressiveness; gloominess, drabness; tediousness,
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Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless - "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
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Grievous, dire; appalling - "They gan to fight returne, increasing more / Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce, / With heaped strokes more hugely, then before, / That with their drerie wounds and bloudy gore / They both deformed ."
If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. a dreary little town in the Midwest = dismal + drearily dreari·ly a drearily familiar scenario. dull and making you feel sad or bored
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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
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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"
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Sorrowful; distressful
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Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy
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Dreariness
dreariment
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drearier
comparative of dreary
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dreariest
superlative of dreary
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drearily
In a dreary manner
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drearily
dismally, gloomily, in a depressing manner
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drearily
Gloomily; dismally
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dreariness
Dismalness; gloomy solitude
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dreariness
extreme dullness
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dreariness
The characteristic of being dreary
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dreariness
Sorrow; wretchedness
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dreariness
sadness, depressiveness; gloominess, drabness; tediousness isim
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