Dreariness
['drɪrɪnɪs]
Definition
(n.) Sorrow; wretchedness.
(n.) Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Editor: Shanna
Examples
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dreariness would accompany, nothing cheerful come near me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It would be useless to ask, says my Lady with the dreariness of the place in Lincolnshire still upon her, whether anything has been done. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The park wore an aspect of utter dreariness and ruin. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Margaret's heart echoed the dreariness of the tone in which this question was put. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician's spells had turned for a little while into a garden. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Maurice grew tired of this dreariness, and went off, in company with Helena, to where the feasting was going on. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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