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Synonyms for dreary
ˈdrɪər idrea·ry
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
dreary
Synonyms:
cheerless, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, distressed, forlorn, miserable, uncomfortable, wretchedAntonyms:
agreeable, at ease, at rest, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, commodious, contented, convenient, genial, pleasant, satisfactory, satisfied, snug, well-off, well-provided, well-to-do
Princeton's WordNet
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"
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dark, disconsolate, drear, sorry, sombre, olive-drab, grim, gloomy, drab, sober, somber, dismal, dingy, blueblue, 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"
Synonyms:
black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed
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How to use dreary in a sentence?
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.
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
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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.
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- тъжен, мраченBulgarian
- unavenýCzech
- freudlos, öde, trostlos, trübeGerman
- malgajaEsperanto
- tristeSpanish
- terneFrench
- सुनसानHindi
- drungalegurIcelandic
- melanconico, malinconicoItalian
- bleek, lusteloosDutch
- dysterNorwegian
- melancólicoPortuguese
- mohorâtRomanian
- мра́чный, тоскливый, тоскли́вый, безотра́дный, гру́стный, му́торный, печа́льныйRussian
- dysterSwedish
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