English-Thai Dictionary
drear
A ที่ เศร้าซึม
dreariness
N ความเศร้า ซึม ความมืด มน deadliness kwam-sao-suam
dreary
ADJ เศร้าซึม ทึม ทึบ มืดมน depressing somber gloomy joyful happy sao-suam
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DREAR
n.Dread; dismalness.
DREAR
a.Dismal; gloomy with solitude. A drear and dying sound.
DREARIHEAD
n.Dismalness; gloominess. [Not in use. ]
DREARILY
adv. Gloomily; dismally.
DREARIMENT
n.Dismalness; terror.
DREARINESS
n.Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
DREARY
a. 1. Dismal; gloomy; as a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and gloom.
2. Sorrowful; distressing; as dreary shrieks.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DREAR
Drear, a. Etym: [See Dreary. ]
Defn: Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound. " Milton.
DREAR
DREAR Drear, n.
Defn: Sadness; dismalness. [Obs. ] Spenser.
DREARIHEAD; DREARIHOOD
DREARIHEAD; DREARIHOOD Drear "i *head, Drear "i *hood, n.
Defn: Affliction; dreariness. [Obs. ] Spenser.
DREARILY
DREARILY Drear "i *ly, adv.
Defn: Gloomily; dismally.
DREARIMENT
DREARIMENT Drear "i *ment, n.
Defn: Dreariness. [Obs. ] Spenser.
DREARINESS
DREARINESS Drear "i *ness, n.
1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs. ]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
DREARING
DREARING Drear "ing, n.
Defn: Sorrow. [Obs. ] Spenser.
DREARISOME
DREARISOME Drear "i *some, a.
Defn: Very dreary. Halliwell.
DREARY
Drear "y, a. [Compar. Drearier; superl. Dreariest.] Etym: [OE. dreori,dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse. ]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs. ] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.
2. 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
drear
drear |dri (ə )r ˈdrɪər | ▶adjective literary term for dreary. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: abbreviation.
dreary
drear y |ˈdri (ə )rē ˈdrɪri | ▶adjective ( drearier, dreariest ) dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing: the dreary routine of working, eating, and trying to sleep. DERIVATIVES drear i ly |ˈdri (ə )rəlē |adverb, drear i ness noun ORIGIN Old English drēorig ‘gory, cruel, ’ also ‘melancholy, ’ from drēor ‘gore, ’ of Germanic origin; related to German traurig ‘sorrowful, ’ also to drowsy, and probably to drizzle .
Oxford Dictionary
drear
drear |drɪə | ▶adjective literary term for dreary. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: abbreviation.
dreary
dreary |ˈdrɪəri | ▶adjective ( drearier, dreariest ) depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive: the dreary round of working, eating, and trying to sleep. DERIVATIVES drearily adverb, dreariness noun ORIGIN Old English drēorig ‘gory, cruel ’, also ‘melancholy ’, from drēor ‘gore ’, of Germanic origin; related to German traurig ‘sorrowful ’, also to drowsy, and probably to drizzle .
American Oxford Thesaurus
dreary
dreary adjective 1 the dreary hours spent in a jail cell: dull, drab, uninteresting, flat, tedious, wearisome, boring, unexciting, unstimulating, uninspiring, soul-destroying; humdrum, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, featureless, ho-hum. ANTONYMS exciting. 2 she thought of dreary things: sad, miserable, depressing, gloomy, somber, grave, mournful, melancholic, joyless, cheerless, dismal, bleak. ANTONYMS cheerful. 3 a dreary day: gloomy, dismal, dull, dark, dingy, murky, overcast; depressing, somber. ANTONYMS bright. WORD TOOLKIT See dismal . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Oxford Thesaurus
dreary
dreary adjective 1 another dreary day at school: dull, drab, uninteresting, flat, dry, banal, bland, insipid, colourless, lifeless, sterile, tedious, wearisome, boring, unexciting, unstimulating, uninspiring, desolate, vapid, jejune, bloodless, soul-destroying, as dry as dust; humdrum, routine, monotonous, uneventful, run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, everyday, unexceptional, unremarkable, quotidian, unvaried, repetitive, featureless, ho-hum. ANTONYMS exciting. 2 she shouldn't be thinking of dreary things like funerals: sad, miserable, depressing, grim, gloomy, glum, sombre, grave, doleful, mournful, melancholic, joyless, cheerless, wretched. ANTONYMS cheerful. 3 it was a dark, dreary day: gloomy, dismal, bleak, dull, dark, dingy, murky, overcast, depressing, sombre. ANTONYMS bright. WORD TOOLKIT dreary See dismal . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
dreary
drear y /drɪ́ ə ri /形容詞 -ier ; -iest 1 ⦅くだけて ⦆つまらない, 退屈な ▸ a dreary movie (単調で )つまらない映画 .2 憂うつな , 物寂しい ▸ a dreary farm village わびしい農村 .3 悲しい .dr é ar i ly 副詞 dr é ar i ness 名詞