¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreariest
1. dreary [adj] - See also: dreary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreariest
Literary usage of Dreariest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... in One Day—The Threshold of the Great Desert Region—New Mexico—Two Oases—El
Paso, and the Small Rio Grande—The Dreariest Deserts—Arrival at Tucson. ..."
2. The American Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829)
"He delights to gladden life ; to throw sunshine on its dreariest wastes, and
strew its ... dreariest ..."
3. The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmons (1822)
"... Safely through seas where wily Sirens play'd, Safely through death's dark
waste, and dreariest hell, Where thronging phantoms linger'd at his spell; ..."
4. A Collection of Letters of Dickens, 1833-1870 by Charles Dickens (1889)
"ings of Carlyle, and enlightened him in her happiest and airiest manner ; all of
which he heard, staring in the dreariest silence, and then said ..."
5. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1906)
"When a boy is only ten, and lives all by himself in the dreariest attic in the
dreariest tenement in the very, very dreariest alley in a great city, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It was not the custom of those days to pass the dreariest season of the year amid
the dreariest scenes ; and if it had been, Julia would have set aside the ..."
Other Resources:
