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drear⋅y
[dreer-ee] 
–adjective, drear⋅i⋅er, drear⋅i⋅est.
| 1. | causing sadness or gloom. |
| 2. | dull; boring. |
| 3. | sorrowful; sad. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME drery, OE drēorig gory, cruel, sad, equiv. to drēor gore + -ig -y 1 ; akin to ON dreyrigr bloody, G traurig sad
bef. 900; ME drery, OE drēorig gory, cruel, sad, equiv. to drēor gore + -ig -y 1 ; akin to ON dreyrigr bloody, G traurig sad
Related forms:
drear⋅i⋅ly, adverb
drear⋅i⋅ness, noun
drear⋅i⋅some, adjective
Synonyms:
1. gloomy, dismal, drear, cheerless, depressing, comfortless. 2. tedious, monotonous, wearisome, tiresome.
1. gloomy, dismal, drear, cheerless, depressing, comfortless. 2. tedious, monotonous, wearisome, tiresome.
Antonyms:
1. cheerful. 2. interesting.
1. cheerful. 2. interesting.
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| drea·ry (drîr'ē) adj. drea·ri·er, drea·ri·est
[Middle English dreri, bloody, frightened, sad, from Old English drēorig, bloody, sad, from drēor, gore; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.] drea'ri·ly adv., drea'ri·ness n. |
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Dreary
Drear"y\, a. [Compar. Drearier; superl. Dreariest.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre['o]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre['o]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." --Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." --Dryden. "The dreary ground." --Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.
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Language Translation for : Dreary
Spanish:
triste,
German:
trostlos,
Japanese:
わびしい
dreary
O.E. dreorig "sorrowful," originally "cruel, bloody," from dreor "gore, blood," from (ge)dreosan (pp. droren) "fall, decline, fail," from W.Gmc. *dreuzas (cf. O.N. dreyrigr "gory, bloody," and more remotely, Ger. traurig "sad, sorrowful"). The word has lost its original sense of "dripping blood." Sense of "dismal, gloomy" first recorded 1667 in "Paradise Lost," but O.E. had a related verb drysmian "become gloomy."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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