dreary

dreary
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dreary — dreary; dun·dreary; …   English syllables

  • dreary — index bleak (severely simple), deplorable, despondent, insipid, jejune (dull), lifeless (dull), lugubri …   Law dictionary

  • dreary — O.E. dreorig sad, sorrowful, originally cruel, bloody, blood stained, from dreor gore, blood, from (ge)dreosan (pp. droren) fall, decline, fail, from W.Gmc. *dreuzas (Cf. O.N. dreyrigr gory, bloody, and more remotely, Ger. traurig sad, sorrowful… …   Etymology dictionary

  • dreary — 1 *dismal, cheerless, dispiriting, bleak, desolate Analogous words: discouraging, disheartening (see DISCOURAGE): barren, *bare: forlorn, hopeless (see DESPONDENT) 2 *dull, humdrum, monotonous, pedestrian, stodgy Analogous words …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • dreary — [adj] gloomy, lifeless black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, comfortless, damp, depressing, depressive, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy …   New thesaurus

  • dreary — ► ADJECTIVE (drearier, dreariest) ▪ dull, bleak, and depressing. DERIVATIVES drearily adverb dreariness noun. ORIGIN Old English, «gory, cruel, melancholy» …   English terms dictionary

  • dreary — [drir′ē] adj. drearier, dreariest [ME dreri < OE dreorig, sad, orig., bloody, gory < dreor, blood < base of dreosan, to drip < IE base * dhreu , break off > DRIP, DROWSE] gloomy; cheerless; depressing; dismal; dull drearily adv.… …   English World dictionary

  • dreary — adj. it was very dreary to do the same job every day = it was very dreary doing the same job every day * * * [ drɪərɪ] it was very dreary to do the same job every day = it was very dreary doing the same job every day …   Combinatory dictionary

  • dreary — [[t]drɪ͟əri[/t]] drearier, dreariest ADJ GRADED 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. Syn: dismal Derived words: drearily ADV GRADED… …   English dictionary

  • dreary — adjective 1) the dreary hours spent in a jail cell Syn: dull, drab, uninteresting, flat, tedious, wearisome, boring, unexciting, unstimulating, uninspiring, soul destroying; humdrum, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, featureless …   Thesaurus of popular words

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