Definitions for dreary
ˈdrɪər idrea·ry

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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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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. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong

2. 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.

3. W. Somerset Maugham:

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

4. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

5. Monica Baldwin:

   I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

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