dreary

adj., -ri·er, -ri·est.

1. Dismal; bleak.
2. Boring; dull: dreary tasks.

[Middle English dreri, bloody, frightened, sad, from Old English drēorig, bloody, sad, from drēor, gore.]

drearily drea'ri·ly adv.
dreariness drea'ri·ness n.

(DREER-ee)

adjective
1. Dismal, gloomy.
2. Dull.

Etymology
From Middle English drery, from Old English dreorig (bloody, sad), from dreor (gore).

Usage
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake." — Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Gitanjali, 1912.

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adjective

1. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy/unhappy, light/darkness.
2. Arousing no interest or curiosity: boring, drear, dry, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary. See excite/bore/interest.

adj

Definition: gloomy, lifeless
Antonyms: bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant

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IN BRIEF: Sad or dull.

Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet from The Rainy Day.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - trist, dyster, uhyggelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
saai, somber

Français (French)
adj. - morne, ennuyeux, monotone, lugubre

Deutsch (German)
adj. - langweilig, gleichförmig, öde

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - απαίσιος, θλιβερός, καταθλιπτικός, σκοτεινός, ανιαρός, πληκτικός, άχαρος, μονότονος

Italiano (Italian)
monotono

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - triste

Русский (Russian)
унылый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - triste, monótono

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - dyster

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
沉闷的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 沈悶的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 황량한, 암울한, 따분한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - わびしい, 退屈な, 物寂しい, 陰鬱な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) حزين, كئيب, موحش‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קודר, משעמם, מעציב‬

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