Definitions for dreary
ˈdrɪər idrea·ry

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

1. drab, dreary(adj)

   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, dreary(adj)

   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. dreary(Adjective)

   Grievous, dire; appalling.

2. dreary(Adjective)

   Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

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

Webster Dictionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dreary

   sorrowful; distressful

2. Dreary

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

Origin: [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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   Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Veena

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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. Robert Louis Stephenson:

   If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

3. Anuj Somany:

   Everything worth saying to everyone is often very scary but not dreary.

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. W. Somerset Maugham:

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

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