English-Thai Dictionary

dreary

ADJ เศร้าซึม  ทึม ทึบ  มืดมน  depressing somber gloomy joyful happy sao-suam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

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

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

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