dreary
/ˈdɹɪɚi/ adjective C1- Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. · It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.· Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
Comparative drearier · Superlative dreariest
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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways.
In the dingiest and dreariest of them our driver suddenly came to a stand.
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