dreary

dreary
    adj 1: 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}, {dreary}]
    2: 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" [syn: {blue},
       {dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
       {sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]
    

Dreary \Drear"y\ (dr[=e]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl.
   {Dreariest}.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre['o]rig, sad; akin
   to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre['o]san to fall, Goth.
   driusan. Cf. {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.]
   1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks."
      --Spenser.
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   2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
      comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." --Dryden.
      "The dreary ground." --Prior.
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            Full many a dreary anxious hour.      --Keble.
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            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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228 Moby Thesaurus words for "dreary":
      Quaker-colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid,
      ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter,
      black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding,
      boring, broken-record, canescent, characterless, cheerless,
      cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, dapple,
      dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deplorable,
      depressed, depressing, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, discomforting,
      dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, doleful,
      dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray,
      downcast, drab, draggy, drear, drearisome, dry, dryasdust, dull,
      dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, evil,
      evil-starred, fade, fateful, flat, foreboding, forlorn, funebrial,
      funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, glum, grave, gray,
      gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
      gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grievous,
      grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, harping, heavy, ho-hum,
      hollow, humdrum, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened,
      ill-starred, inane, inauspicious, inexcitable, insipid, invariable,
      iron-gray, jejune, jog-trot, joyless, lamentable, lead-gray,
      leaden, lifeless, livid, long-winded, low-spirited, lowering,
      melancholy, menacing, miserable, monotone, monotonous, morose,
      mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving,
      of evil portent, ominous, oppressive, ordinary, painful, pale,
      pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, piteous,
      pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous,
      portending, portentous, prolix, prosaic, regrettable, rueful,
      run-of-the-mill, sad, saddening, saturnine, sharp, silver,
      silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singsong, sinister, slate-colored,
      slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous,
      sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff,
      stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe,
      tedious, threatening, tiresome, tiring, touching, treadmill,
      triste, uncomfortable, uneventful, unexciting, unfavorable,
      unfortunate, unhappy, uninteresting, unlively, unlucky,
      unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, unvarying, vapid, weariful,
      wearisome, weary, wearying, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched