dreary
Plural: drearies
Adjective Satellite
- lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- "a series of dreary dinner parties"
- causing dejection
Adj
- Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
- Grievous, dire; appalling.
Adjective
- Dismal, gloomy, or causing a feeling of sadness or dullness.
Noun
- A person characterized by gloom, dullness, or causing sadness.
Examples
- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- No one wanted to play Scrabble with the dreary, who always complained about their tiles.
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
- The dreary weather outside mirrored his dreary score in the Scrabble tournament.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Synonyms
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry, bland, bleak, cheerless, colourless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dim, dire, doleful, dolesome, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, faint, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gray, joyless, lack-laughter, lackluster, leaden, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, muddy, no joke, sad, saturnine, sober, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, uncolorful, unhappy, unholiday, unmerry, wan, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 10
dreary: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddreary: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dreary: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary