The abstract noun form of the adjective 'dreary' is dreariness.
Dismal is means someone that is depressing. This can also be called dreary.
They're pretty dreary and grey and stormy throughout the play, reflecting the major trouble about to come.
The state of Wisconsin has dreary weather but no storms are forecast for the Milwaukee area tonight.
It only seems that way because of the dreary cloud cover on an average of 201 days each year with 93 days of partly cloudy and frequent but rarely heavy amounts of rainfall.
Yes, dreary is an adjective--a dreary day.
Dreary means unhappy, bored, down in the dumps, depressed
The abstract noun form of the adjective 'dreary' is dreariness.
Looking out the window and seeing the rain confirmed that it was a dreary day.
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The world was dark and dreary, because it was rainy and stormy outside.It was such a dark and dreary day that we decided to go to a bright and cheerful movie.It was sunny in the morning, however the day turned dreary when the sky grew dark and it began to rain.
There is no Dreary Lane in New York City.
A Dreary Diary - 1916 was released on: USA: 6 September 1916
The word 'dreary' originates from old English meaning blood and it refers to a situation that is remarkably bleak or dismal. An example would be: "we all have to attend this dreary meeting every Tuesday".
The word dreary is an adjective. It means gloomy, dull, or sorrowful. There is a rarely seen related adjective, drearisome.
"Cheery rooftops" rhymes with "dreary mountaintop."
"Midnight" is the noun in the phrase "midnight dreary." "Dreary" is the adjective that is describing "midnight."In the English language, the adjective usually comes before the noun, however; the phrase "midnight dreary" comes from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," in which Poe places "dreary" after "midnight" in order to set up the rhyme with "weary" that follows: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...." The inverted syntax is also indicative of the time period in which Poe was writing.