dreary
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3.8
- adjective
- /ˈdrɪəri/
:
sombrío
- My friend Arthur, a British hiker and birder, had just arrived from cold, dreary London.
- a dreary life
- long and dreary
- make dreary
It's a kind of dreary, very late summer.
- It's a kind of dreary, very late summer.
- I started to feel dreary and I went, Mel, cut this out.
- And, and it actually, I think allows people to be more engaged and use their brains more and actually do things that aren't dreary things.
- And they were like, we want to recreate this like beautiful Ibiza feeling here in like dreary England.
- And I saw a bit of myself then when you were doing that, because to meet they're, they're quite dull and dreary processes in life, probably like Trump's fucking speech.
- Let's lower the saturation quite a bit to really to really make it feel like, oh, it's a Gray day and dark and dreary a composition.
Examples
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Martha sat across the conference table from Nettie Lee on a dreary Thursday morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
For once in their dreary lives, they have something wonderful to look at.
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Thank you for coming on this dreary day.
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Does this once again bring us face to face with that dreary topic, the death of the author?
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A riot of color in a dreary, gray world.
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London's been dreary without you, darling.
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In my defense, it has been dreary, cloudy and dull in New York for the past two weeks now.
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For the most part, life in the slums is really rather dreary and dull.
Academic text (1991) -
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the same grinding, dreary, deadly monotony.
Academic text (2016) -
The movie was dreary, with a slow pace and a sad ending.
Synonyms
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
377
1.0
Feeling gloomy and sad
219
2.2
Making you feel very sad and that things will not get better
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
73
4.2
Sad and hopeless, making things seem very bad
62
4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
37
5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
30
6.1
Dull and showing little energy
23
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
23
4.2
Not bright or colorful and not lively
19
3.6
Without energy or interest and making people feel bored
18
7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
17
2.1
Making people feel sad because of how it looks or feels
15
7.9
Being quiet and unhappy and showing little interest in others
14
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
8
5.0
Cold wet weather that feels unpleasant
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
5
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
4
4.2
Dark and dull in color, not bright
2
5.5
Not bright or warm and making people feel sad
2
7.4
Not interesting or lively and often boring
1
6.3
Not interesting and without energy or life
1
9.9
A dull, cold, and depressing place or scene
Causing deep sadness in people or places
Dark and sad in a way that makes you feel unhappy
Dark cloudy weather or a sad heavy mood
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Antonyms
How Dreary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dreary comes from the old English drēorig, which meant 'sad' or 'gloomy'. Think of a cold, grey, rainy day that makes you feel low — that image explains why dreary now means 'dull, bleak, and depressing'.