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Drear·y a. [Compar. Drearier superl. Dreariest.]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] “ Dreary shrieks.”
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. “ Dreary shades.” --Dryden. “The dreary ground.”
Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble.
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.
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dreary
adj 1: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy
streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles
Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town";
"gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the
heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: dingy, dismal,
drab, drear, gloomy, sorry]
2: 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" [syn: drab]
[also: dreariest, drearier]