dreary

drea·ry  (drîr)

adj. drea·ri·er, drea·ri·est

1. Dismal; bleak.

2. Boring; dull: dreary tasks.

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[Middle English dreri, bloody, frightened, sad, from Old English drorig, bloody, sad, from dror, gore; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.]

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dreari·ly adv.

dreari·ness n.

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dreary

Adjective

[drearier, dreariest] dull or uninteresting: there are long streets of dreary red houses spreading everywhere [Old English drēorig gory]

drearily adv
dreariness n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	dreary - 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" drab dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
	2.	dreary - 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" dismal, drear, disconsolate, dingy, gloomy, drab, sorry, grim, blue, dark cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

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dreary

adjective 1. dull, boring, tedious, routine, drab, tiresome, lifeless, monotonous, humdrum, colourless, uneventful, uninteresting, mind-numbing, ho-hum (informal) wearisome, as dry as dust << OPPOSITE exciting

adjective 2. dismal, depressing, bleak, sad, lonely, gloomy, solitary, melancholy, sombre, forlorn, glum, mournful, lonesome chiefly U.S., Canad. downcast, sorrowful, wretched, joyless, funereal, doleful, cheerless, drear, comfortless

Translations

dreary [ˈdrɪərɪ] adj → monótono, aburrido

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dreary [ˈdrɪərɪ] adj → triste; monotone

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dreary [ˈdrɪərɪ] adj → langweilig;

(weather) → trüb

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dreary [ˈdrɪərɪ] adj → tetro/a; monotono/a