(drearier, dreariest) that makes you feel sad; dull and not interesting:
a dreary winter's day * a dreary film * a long and dreary journey on the train
drearily adverb:
'I didn't get the job,' he said drearily. * The dresses all looked drearily similar-I didn't like any of them.
dreariness noun [U]:
She hated the dreariness of her everyday life.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dreary is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dreary a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dreary is tagged as adjective.
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