dryasdust

dryasdust
Synonyms and related words:
Jonathan Oldbuck, Miniver Cheevy, Pre-Raphaelite, academic, antiquarian, antiquary, antique collector, antique dealer, antique-car collector, archaeologist, archaist, arid, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bookish, bore, broken-record, bromidic, buttonholer, characterless, classicist, cold, colorless, crashing bore, dead, devoted to studies, diligent, dismal, donnish, drag, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drip, dry, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, fade, flat, flat tire, frightful bore, harping, headache, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, jejune, jog-trot, laudator temporis acti, leaden, lifeless, long-winded, low-spirited, mandarin, medievalist, monotonous, nuisance, owlish, pale, pallid, pedantic, pedestrian, pest, pill, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, professorial, prolix, proser, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, singsong, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, studious, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, treadmill, twaddler, uneventful, uninteresting, unlively, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearisome, wet blanket, wooden

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  • Dryasdust — was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities… …   Wikipedia

  • dryasdust — [drī′əz dust΄] n. a dull, pedantic person adj. dull and boring * * * dry·as·dust or dry as dust (drīʹəz dŭst ) n. A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.   [After Dr. Jonas Dryasdust, a fictitious character to whom …   Universalium

  • dryasdust — [drī′əz dust΄] n. a dull, pedantic person adj. dull and boring …   English World dictionary

  • dryasdust — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun ( s) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: after Dr. Jonas Dryasdust, fictitious person to whom Sir Walter Scott died 1832 Scottish author dedicated some of his novels : one that is uninteresting because of concentration upon …   Useful english dictionary

  • dryasdust — adjective Date: circa 1872 boring • dryasdust noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Dryasdust — /ˈdraɪəzdʌst/ (say druyuhzdust) noun someone who deals with dry, uninteresting subjects; a dull pedant. {from Dr Jonas Dryasdust, a fictitious character to whom Sir Walter Scott, 1771–1832, dedicated some of his novels} …  

  • DRYASDUST —    a name of Sir Walter Scott s invention, and employed by him to denote an imaginary character who supplied him with dry preliminary historical details, and since used to denote a writer who treats a historical subject with all due diligence and …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • dryasdust — dry·as·dust || draɪəzdÊŒst n. dull or boring person; dull and pedantic speaker or writer adj. boring, dull; pedantic …   English contemporary dictionary

  • dry-as-dust — /druy euhz dust /, adj. dull and boring: a dry as dust biography. Also, dryasdust. [1870 75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott s novels] * * * dry|as|dust «DRY uhz DUHST», noun. = pedant. (Cf.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • dry-as-dust — /druy euhz dust /, adj. dull and boring: a dry as dust biography. Also, dryasdust. [1870 75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott s novels] * * * …   Universalium

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