When something is dreary it's depressing or lifeless in a rainy day way. I finished my work, there was nothing on TV, and the rain just wouldn't stop: what a dreary day!
Sorrowful; distressful.
Adjective S.
depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
Adjective S.
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"
superl.
Sorrowful; distressful.
superl.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or
associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Dreary
Full many a dreary anxious hour.
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.
Sorrowful; distressful.
Usage Examples
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
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Other Usage ExamplesDeath is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.