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dreary
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
drearier; dreariest
drearier; dreariest
Learner's definition of DREARY
[or more dreary; most dreary]
: causing unhappiness or sad feelings : not warm, cheerful, etc.沉闷的；阴郁的；令人沮丧的
- It was a gray, dreary morning.那是一个灰暗阴沉的早晨。
- She longed to leave her dreary [=gloomy, dismal] hometown.她渴望离开她那沉闷的家乡。
- The family struggled through dreary economic times.一家人熬过了经济拮据的时期。
Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- godforsaken
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Example Sentences
It was a gray, dreary morning. The family struggled through dreary economic times.
Recent Examples on the Web Shura looks at the scene outside the window on a dreary, gray day and re-creates that, but the teacher had a more cheerful image in mind—something that Alyona immediately understood. 
Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 The unofficial end to summer, Labor Day weekend, was rather dreary in Northeast Ohio. Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022 No matter how dreary winter gets, one look at 'Samba' will make your day seem brighter. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2022 This fantasy sequence — illustrating how Diana would rather be on a date at a disco than at a dreary classical concert — reflected the show’s unapologetic commitment to pop maximalism. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 Even while talking through Zoom with a spotty Internet connection, Juliana Joel’s confidence, charisma, and undeniable charm beams through the screen and lights up my dreary office. Olivia Zayas Ryan, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2022 That’s where Marco, a 16-year-old on break from his dreary Scottish boarding school, befriends U.S. GI turned fisherman Nicola (played by Franco). K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 July 2022 So San Francisco, my favorite place, was jumpy, but dreary Erie, Penn. — where my room overlooked the lake — turned out to be as pretty and light-filled as Venice. New York Times, 27 July 2022 In a showing as dreary as the cold, wet weather outside Alaska Airlines Arena, the Bruins couldn’t make a shot and their usually sturdy defense was not offering much resistance. Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022 See More
Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 The unofficial end to summer, Labor Day weekend, was rather dreary in Northeast Ohio. Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022 No matter how dreary winter gets, one look at 'Samba' will make your day seem brighter. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2022 This fantasy sequence — illustrating how Diana would rather be on a date at a disco than at a dreary classical concert — reflected the show’s unapologetic commitment to pop maximalism. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 Even while talking through Zoom with a spotty Internet connection, Juliana Joel’s confidence, charisma, and undeniable charm beams through the screen and lights up my dreary office. Olivia Zayas Ryan, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2022 That’s where Marco, a 16-year-old on break from his dreary Scottish boarding school, befriends U.S. GI turned fisherman Nicola (played by Franco). K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 July 2022 So San Francisco, my favorite place, was jumpy, but dreary Erie, Penn. — where my room overlooked the lake — turned out to be as pretty and light-filled as Venice. New York Times, 27 July 2022 In a showing as dreary as the cold, wet weather outside Alaska Airlines Arena, the Bruins couldn’t make a shot and their usually sturdy defense was not offering much resistance. Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English drery, from Old English drēorig sad, bloody, from drēor gore; akin to Old High German trūrēn to be sad, Goth driusan to fall
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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