'Dreary' definitions:
Definition of 'dreary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Dreary'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'dreary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quaker-colored,
- 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