Definitions for Dreary
ˈdrɪər idrea·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. drab, drearyadjective

   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"

2. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. drearyadjective

   Grievous, dire; appalling.

2. drearyadjective

   Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

3. Etymology: From drery, from dreorig, from dreuzagaz, from dʰreus-. Cognate with treurig, traurig, dreyrigr. Related to dreor, drysmian.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DREARYadjective

   Etymology: dreorig, Saxon.

   1. Sorrowful; distressful.

   The messenger of death, the ghastly owl,
   With dreary shrieks did also yell;
   And hungry wolves continually did howl
   At her abhorred face, so horrid and so foul. Fairy Queen.

   2. Gloomy; dismal; horrid.

   Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led
   Along the vast dominions of the dead. John Dryden, Æn. 6.

   Towns, forests, herds and men promiscuous drown’d,
   With one great death deform the dreary ground. Matthew Prior.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. Dreary

   sorrowful; distressful

2. Dreary

   exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy

3. Etymology: [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. drerig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dresan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]

Anagrams for Dreary »

1. yarder

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dreary in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dreary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Dreary in a Sentence

1. Manu:

   Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.

2. Van Iderstine:

   Chocolate brown is always my go-to Valentine’s Day color, who does n’t want chocolate on V-Day ? It’s sweet and a little moody, perfect for a winter February mani that does n’t feel too dreary.

3. Longfellow:

   Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

4. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

5. Robert Louis Stevenson:

   If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Dreary
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dreary
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Dreary
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Dreary