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drearisome

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drear⋅y

  [dreer-ee]
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–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

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.

Antonyms:
1. cheerful. 2. interesting.
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Word Origin & History

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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