dreary

/'driəri/ Cách viết khác : (drear) /driə/

Thân thiện

The dreary weather made everyone stay indoors.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Dull, bleak, and depressing; causing sadness or gloom: Describes something that is boring, uninteresting, and makes one feel unhappy or without hope.
   • Lacking in color, cheer, or interest; monotonous: Describes something that is drab, uneventful, and fails to engage or excite.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The weather was cold and dreary for the entire week.
  • He found the lecture on tax law to be incredibly dreary.
  • They drove through a dreary industrial landscape on the outskirts of the city.

Advanced Usage

• "dreary existence/life": A way of life that is monotonous and depressing.
  • After retirement, he felt trapped in a dreary existence.
• "dreary routine": A daily pattern of activities that is dull and repetitive.
  • She longed to escape the dreary routine of her office job.

Variants and Related Words

• Drear (adj., literary): A less common, poetic form meaning bleak or dismal.
  • The drear winter months seemed endless.
• Drearily (adv.): In a dull, bleak, or depressing manner.
  • The rain fell drearily on the empty streets.
• Dreariness (n.): The state or quality of being dreary.
  • The sheer dreariness of the task made it hard to continue.

Synonyms

• Dismal: Depressing, dreary.
• Gloomy: Dark, pessimistic, or depressing.
• Drab: Dull, lacking brightness or interest.
• Bleak: Cold, empty, and offering little hope.
• Monotonous: Dull, tedious, and repetitious.

Antonyms

• Cheerful: Noticeably happy and optimistic.
• Bright: Full of light, vivid, or intelligent.
• Exciting: Causing great enthusiasm and eagerness.
• Lively: Full of life and energy; active and outgoing.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• A dreary old business: Used to describe a situation, task, or topic that is very dull and tedious.
  • Filling out all these forms is a dreary old business.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. causing dejection
   • a blue day
   • the dark days of the war
   • a week of rainy depressing weather
   • a disconsolate winter landscape
   • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
   • a dark gloomy day
   • grim rainy weather
2. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
   • her drab personality
   • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
   • a series of dreary dinner parties

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drab