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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
dreary
adj 1: 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" [syn: drab, dreary]
2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Dreary \Drear"y\ (dr[=e]r"[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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." --Dryden.
"The dreary ground." --Prior.
[1913 Webster]
Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble.
[1913 Webster]
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
part of that dreary interval which separated two
ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for dreary:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Quaker-colored, 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, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-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, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, 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, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, long-winded, low-spirited, lowering, 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, regrettable, rueful, run-of-the-mill, sad, saddening, saturnine, sharp, silver, silver-gray, silvered, 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 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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