dreary

adjective · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

dreariermore dreary

Superlative

dreariestmost dreary

1.
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
Đồng nghĩa: bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faint, lackluster, leaden, muddy, sad, sober, uncolorful, unholiday, wan
2.
(obsolete)Grievous, dire; appalling.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

drearies

1.
(rare)A dreary person or thing.
In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully.

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Đồng nghĩa

bleak gloomycheerlesscomfortlessdark morose depressingdesolatediredisconsolatedismal dolefuldolesomedreardrearisomedreich forlorngaylessgraygloomsome

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (sad), from *dreuʀag, from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (bloody), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (to break, break off, crumble), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with trurich, treurich, treurig, trurig, traurig, dreyrugr, dreyrigr (bloody, gory), whence dreyrugur. Related to drēor, drysmian.