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English Dictionary: dreary	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dreary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dreary adj 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" Synonym(s): drab, dreary 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" Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dreary \Drear"y\, a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl. {Dreariest}.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre[a2]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre[a2]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.] 1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] [bd] Dreary shrieks.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. [bd] Dreary shades.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]The dreary ground.[b8] --Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.