dreary
11dreary — adjective 1) the dreary hours spent in a jail cell Syn: dull, drab, uninteresting, flat, tedious, wearisome, boring, unexciting, unstimulating, uninspiring, soul destroying; humdrum, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, featureless …
12dreary — UK [ˈdrɪərɪ] / US [ˈdrɪrɪ] adjective Word forms dreary : adjective dreary comparative drearier superlative dreariest making you feel bored or unhappy dark and dreary weather …
13dreary — drear|y [ˈdrıəri US ˈdrıri] adj also drear [drıə US drır] literary [: Old English; Origin: dreorig bloody, sad ] dull and making you feel sad or bored ▪ the same old dreary routine ▪ a dreary winter s day >dreariness n [U] …
14dreary — drea|ry [ drıri ] adjective making you feel bored or unhappy: dark and dreary weather life in a dreary town …
15dreary — [OE] In Old English, dreary (or drēorig, as it then was) meant ‘dripping with blood, gory’, but its etymological connections are with ‘dripping, falling’ rather than with ‘blood’. It goes back to a West Germanic base *dreuz , *drauz which also… …
16dreary — also drear, poetical adjective not interesting or cheerful: the same old dreary routine | a dreary winter s day …
17dreary — [OE] In Old English, dreary (or drēorig, as it then was) meant ‘dripping with blood, gory’, but its etymological connections are with ‘dripping, falling’ rather than with ‘blood’. It goes back to a West Germanic base *dreuz , *drauz which also… …
18dreary — adj. Dreary is used with these nouns: ↑morning, ↑room, ↑winter …
19dreary — drear·y || drɪərɪ adj. dreary, gloomy, depressing, dismal; tedious, boring …
20dreary — [ˈdrɪəri] adj making you feel bored or unhappy dreary weather[/ex] …
