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Definition of Dreary
1. Adjective. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. "A series of dreary dinner parties"
2. Adjective. Causing dejection. "Grim rainy weather"
Similar to: Cheerless, Depressing, Uncheerful
Derivative terms: Dreariness
Definition of Dreary
1. a. Sorrowful; distressful.
Definition of Dreary
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling. ¹
2. Adjective. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreary
1. dismal [adj DREARIER, DREARIEST] : DREARILY [adv] / a dismal person [n DREARIES] - See also: dismal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreary
Literary usage of Dreary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Life to me how dreary ! . . . S. Ay waking, Of And dawin it is dreary, When birks
are bare at Yule. And in the mirk and dreary drift The hills and glens are ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"probably Massachusetts does not furnish a more grand and dreary walk. On the
seaside there are only a distant sail and a few coots to break the grand ..."
3. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1838)
"dreary Prospect for the Winter. — Disturbances and Sufferings of the Crew. ...
THE prospect for Hudson and his men was now dreary and disheartening. ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE RISE OF PRUSSIA THE EXTRAORDINARY RISE OF A LITTLE STATE IN A dreary PART OF
NORTHERN GERMANY, CALLED PRUSSIA THE history of Prussia is the history of a ..."
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