Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: cheerless, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dull, gloomy, sorry, uncheerful

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