Canadian English Meaning of dreary
Dreary
Other Canadian English words related to Dreary
- bleak
- cold
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- grey
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- morbid
- murky
- solemn
- somber
- blue
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- cloudy
- cheerless
- depressed
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dull
- elegiac
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- God-forsaken
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- glum
- oppressive
- sad
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- unhappy
- gloomy
- Cimmerian
- Colourless
- dejected
- desperate
- despondent
- dim
- Disconcerting
- disheartening
- disheartening
- daunting
- dispiriting
- distressful
- distressing
- dour
- down
- drab
- droopy
- elegiac
- grim
- hangdog
- hopeless
- inconsolable
- lamentable
- Low
- melancholic
- menacing
- cheerless
- mournful
- negative
- pessimistic
- plaintive
- Plutonian
- sorrowful
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- threatening
- upsetting
- woebegone
- woeful
Nearest Words of dreary
Definitions and Meaning of dreary in English
dreary (s)
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
causing dejection
dreary (superl.)
Sorrowful; distressful.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
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Dreary
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise, causing dejectionSorrowful; distressful., Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dis
bleak,cold,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate,grey,grey,lonely
bright,buoyant,chipper,cheerful,comforting,cordial,festive,friendly,queer,jolly
drearisome => dreary, drearing => raising, dreariness => dreariness, dreariment => Dreariness, drearily => dismally,