Antonyms for dreary
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dreer-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪər i |
Definition of dreary
Origin :- Old English dreorig "sad, sorrowful," originally "cruel, bloody, blood-stained," from dreor "gore, blood," from (ge)dreosan (past participle droren) "fall, decline, fail," from West Germanic *dreuzas (cf. Old Norse dreyrigr "gory, bloody," and more remotely, German traurig "sad, sorrowful"), from PIE root *dhreu- "to fall, flow, drip, droop" (see drip (v.)).
- The word has lost its original sense of "dripping blood." Sense of "dismal, gloomy" first recorded 1667 in "Paradise Lost," but Old English had a related verb drysmian "become gloomy."
- adj gloomy, lifeless
- He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- There was the dreary monotone of crushed hope in Porter's voice as he spoke.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- I have one dreary, cold room, as unlike this as two rooms can be.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- All was deep, dreary darkness, but Siegfried had not learned fear.
- Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
- The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- She looked around the room: what an ugly, dreary little room it was!
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
- There was need of encouragement on the threshold of the bridge, for the bridge was dreary.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sightseers.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- I woke early on the Sunday morning, and a most dreary morning it was.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- He was now a solitary man, and the heart within him was dreary and lonesome.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for dreary
- black
- blah
- bleak
- boring
- cheerless
- colorless
- comfortless
- damp
- depressing
- depressive
- dingy
- dismal
- dispiriting
- doleful
- downcast
- drab
- dull
- forlorn
- funereal
- glum
- humdrum
- joyless
- lonely
- lonesome
- melancholy
- monotonous
- mournful
- oppressive
- pedestrian
- raw
- routine
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- uneventful
- uninteresting
- wearisome
- windy
- wintry
- wretched
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