that makes you feel sad; dull and not interestingsynonymdulla dreary winter’s daya dreary filma long and dreary journey on the trainOxford Collocations DictionaryDreary is used with these nouns: morning,room,winter,…Seefull entrySee related entries:UnhappinessWord OriginOld English drēorig ‘gory, cruel’, also ‘melancholy’, from drēor ‘gore’, of Germanic origin; related to German traurig ‘sorrowful’, also to drowsy, and probably to drizzle.Extra examplesLunch was a pretty dreary affair.a dark and dreary February morninghis dull and dreary lifeplaying the same dreary old tunestreets full of dreary little shopsHe didn’t want to go back to his dreary little bedsit.The house looked grim and dreary in the faint damp rain.
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