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dreary    音标拼音: [dr'ɪri]
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dreary
adj 1: 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: {drab}, {dreary}]
2: 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: {blue},
{dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
{sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]

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.
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Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble.
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Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
part of that dreary interval which separated two
ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.
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228 Moby Thesaurus words for "dreary":
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 Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    dreary, often interchangeable with dismal, emphasizes discouragement resulting from sustained dullness or futility
  • DREARY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    DREARY definition: 1 boring and making you feel unhappy: 2 boring and making you feel unhappy: 3 unattractive and… Learn more
  • DREARY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    DREARY definition: causing sadness or gloom See examples of dreary used in a sentence
  • DREARY Synonyms: 286 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
    Some common synonyms of dreary are bleak, cheerless, desolate, dismal, and gloomy While all these words mean "devoid of cheer or comfort," dreary, often interchangeable with dismal, emphasizes discouragement resulting from sustained dullness or futility
  • Dreary - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    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 - definition of dreary by The Free Dictionary
    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
  • dreary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    Adjective dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary) Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless Synonyms: bleak, gloomy; see also Thesaurus: cheerless, Thesaurus: dim It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down
  • Dreary – Meaning and Examples: A Complete Guide
    Let's get straight to the point: "dreary" is an adjective used to describe something dull, bleak, and monotonous It's often associated with feelings of boredom or sadness, or with environments that seem uninviting or gloomy
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  • What does dreary mean? - Definitions. net
    Dreary is an adjective used to describe something that is dull, bleak, lifeless, or depressing It can refer to anything like weather, a place, a task, or a period of time that lacks brightness, interest or enthusiasm and may somehow cause sadness, boredom or discomfort





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