dreary English

Meaning dreary meaning

What does dreary mean?

Definitions in simple English

dreary Adjective

— When you are dreary, you are feeling very sad Jim felt rather dreary after he received his terrible examination results.

— When something is dreary, it is dark and colourless. The weather is very dreary today.

dreary

— adjective (= drab) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise her drab personality life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas a series of dreary dinner parties

— adjective (= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim) 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

Synonyms dreary synonyms

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dreary English » English

dismal

bleak

desolate

sad

nasty

horrible

gloomy

miserable

somber

gaunt

lonely

dull

ghastly

lonesome

drear

drab

boring

grisly

forlorn

dark

solitary

melancholy

lone

hideous

disconsolate

uninteresting

tedious

sullen

sombre

shabby

lugubrious

grim

doleful

dingy

depressing

cheerless

weary of

waste

unpleasant

tasteless

stodgy

stark

sorry

repulsive

repelling

repellent

mournful

humdrum

distasteful

disagreeable

Topics dreary topics

What do people use dreary to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

• What words describe a place that is uninteresting
  dead one-horse town nothing ever happens drab featureless dreary

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

• What words describe a place that causes someone to feel sad?
  dismal depressing dreary bleak cheerless