Thesaurus: dreary

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1. superl. Sorrowful; distressful.
2. superl. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
3. adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
4. adj. causing dejection
5. 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.
6. j:100 s lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise s causing dejection