dreary
1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise (Freq. 1)
- her drab personality
- life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
- a series of dreary dinner parties
• Syn:
drab
• Similar to:
dull
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness, drabness (for: drab)
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
• Syn:
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal,
gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness
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