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dreary 音标拼音: [dr'ɪri] a. 沉闷的 沈闷的 dreary adj 1: lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; " her drab personality"; " life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; " a series of dreary dinner parties" [ synonym: { drab}, { dreary}] 2: causing dejection; " a blue day"; " the dark days of the war"; " a week of rainy depressing weather"; " a disconsolate winter landscape"; " the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; " a dark gloomy day"; " grim rainy weather" [ synonym: { blue}, { dark}, { dingy}, { disconsolate}, { dismal}, { gloomy}, { grim}, { sorry}, { drab}, { drear}, { dreary}] Dreary \ Drear" y\ ( dr[= e] r"[ y^]), a. [ Compar. { Drearier}; superl. { Dreariest}.] [ OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre[' o] rig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre[' o] san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. { Dross}, { Drear}, { Drizzle}, { Drowse}.] 1. Sorrowful; distressful. [ Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." -- Dryden. " The dreary ground." -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] Full many a dreary anxious hour. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster] Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 228 Moby Thesaurus words for " dreary": Quaker- colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding, boring, broken- record, canescent, characterless, cheerless, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, dapple, dapple- gray, dappled, dappled- gray, dark, dead, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, doomful, dove- colored, dove- gray, downcast, drab, draggy, drear, drearisome, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, evil, evil- starred, fade, fateful, flat, foreboding, forlorn, funebrial, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, gray- black, gray- brown, gray- colored, gray- drab, gray- green, gray- spotted, gray- toned, gray- white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, harping, heavy, ho- hum, hollow, humdrum, ill, ill- boding, ill- fated, ill- omened, ill- starred, inane, inauspicious, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, iron- gray, jejune, jog- trot, joyless, lamentable, lead- gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, long- winded, low- spirited, lowering, melancholy, menacing, miserable, monotone, monotonous, morose, mournful, mouse- colored, mouse- gray, mousy, moving, of evil portent, ominous, oppressive, ordinary, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl- gray, pearly, pedestrian, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, portending, portentous, prolix, prosaic, regrettable, rueful, run- of- the- mill, sad, saddening, saturnine, sharp, silver, silver- gray, silvered, silvery, singsong, sinister, slate- colored, slaty, slow, smoke- gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel- gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone- colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, threatening, tiresome, tiring, touching, treadmill, triste, uncomfortable, uneventful, unexciting, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, uninteresting, unlively, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, wearying, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched
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