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adj. Dismal; bleak.

adj. Boring; dull: dreary tasks.

adj. Grievous, dire; appalling.

adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

adj. Sorrowful; distressful.

adj. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

Sorrowful; sad.

Lonesomely dismal or gloomy; exciting a feeling of desolation, sadness, or gloom.

Hence Exciting a feeling of tedium or ennui; tiresomely monotonous: as, a dreary book.

Synonyms and Cheerless, comfortless, drear, dark. Tedious.

adj. causing dejection

adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

"He called to tell me he had decided that he would rather begin his stay at the clinic in Switzerland and attend the music conservatory during the holidays than remain at the Clairborne mansion for what he called another dreary Christmas."

depressing    cheerless    uncheerful    dull   

dreariest    drearier   

sorrowful    distressful    comfortless    dismal    gloomy    cheerless    depressing    lonely    sad    monotonous   

Alfieri    Cleary    Erie    Kiri    Leary    beery    bleary    cheery    deary    eerie   

gloomy    desolate    dismal    bleak    dull    endless    tedious    miserable    dim