dreary
dreary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abstract
- ace
- alone
- and
- apart
- atomic
- azygous
- beat
- but
- combine
- compact
- desolate
- dine
- disjoin
- disjunction
- else
- first
- fort
- half
- indiscerptible
- individual
- individuality
- indivisible
- insecable
- inseverable
- insular
- irresolvable
- isolate
- isolated
- isolation
- itself
- join
- last
- lone
- lonely
- lonesome
- monospermous
- none
- number
- odd
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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