Synonyms for dreary
ˈdrɪər idrea·ry

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1. dreary

   Synonyms:
   cheerless, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, distressed, forlorn, miserable, uncomfortable, wretched

   Antonyms:
   agreeable, at ease, at rest, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, commodious, contented, convenient, genial, pleasant, satisfactory, satisfied, snug, well-off, well-provided, well-to-do

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1. drab, drearyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dark, disconsolate, drear, sorry, sombre, olive-drab, grim, gloomy, drab, sober, somber, dismal, dingy, blue

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, lively

2. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed

   Antonyms:
   lively, cheerful

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1. drearyadjective

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, dark, drear

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1. drearyadjective

   Synonyms:
   dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull

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1. List of paraphrases for "dreary":

   boring, dull, dismal, annoying, ghoulish, sad

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1. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

3. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

4. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

5. Manu:

   Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.