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adjective
- 1. depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive: "the dreary round of working, eating, and trying to sleep" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of DREARY is feeling, displaying, or reflecting listlessness or discouragement. How to use dreary in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dreary.
unattractive and having nothing of any interest, and therefore likely to make you sad: It was a gray, dreary day, with periods of rain. (Definition of dreary from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of dreary. dreary. The problem may seem dreary but it still needs spelling out in detail.
Dreary definition: causing sadness or gloom.. See examples of DREARY used in a sentence.
When something is dreary it's depressing or lifeless in a rainy-day way. I finished my work, there was nothing on TV, and the rain just wouldn't stop: what a dreary day! Dreary can refer to a feeling, a place, a time, or even a thing.
If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. ...a dreary little town in the Midwest. They live such dreary lives. Synonyms: dull, boring, tedious, routine More Synonyms of dreary. drearily adverb [ADVERB adjective, ADVERB with verb] ...a drearily familiar scenario. More Synonyms of dreary.
Define dreary. dreary synonyms, dreary pronunciation, dreary translation, English dictionary definition of dreary. adj. drea·ri·er , drea·ri·est 1. Dismal; bleak. 2. Boring; dull: dreary tasks. drea′ri·ly adv. drea′ri·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...
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 *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreus-(“to break, break off, crumble”).
Definition of dreary adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
boring and making you feel unhappy: a rainy, dreary day. a dreary job. (Definition of dreary from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
dreary /ˈdrɪərɪ/ adj (drearier, dreariest) sad or dull; dismal. wearying; boring. Also (literary): drear Etymology: Old English drēorig gory; related to Old High German trūreg sad. ˈdrearily adv ˈdreariness n.
