Dreary
['drɪərɪ] or ['drɪri]
Definition
(superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.
(superl.) Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, dark, drear.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DISMAL]
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Definition
adj. gloomy: cheerless.—adv. Drear′ily.—ns. Drear′iment Drear′ing Drear′ihead Drear′ihood (Spens.) dreariness cheerlessness; Drear′iness.—adj. Drear′isome desolate forlorn.
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Examples
- It was dull and dreary enough, when the long summer evening closed in, on that Saturday night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road I have traversed since! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I went through the dreary house, and darkened the windows. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So cold, so lonely, so dreary all! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Call her in, out of the dreary moonlight--pray call her in! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is muffled and dreary. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could see that her mind was too much occupied to feel the dreary impressions from without which had fastened themselves already on mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Poor Lady Crawley's rose-garden became the dreariest wilderness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He did it, but the result was drearier than darkness itself. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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