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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
- Example: "her drab personality"
- Example: "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
- Example: "a series of dreary dinner parties"
[syn: drab, dreary]

2. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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   2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
      comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." --Dryden.
      "The dreary ground." --Prior.
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            Full many a dreary anxious hour.      --Keble.
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            Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
            part of that dreary interval which separated two
            ages of prosperity.                   --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn: 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" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]