Dreary
adjective
Lacking in liveliness or happiness. It has a depressing or boring feeling.
I woke up to another dreary day of rain.
Often appears as...
- dreary weather
- dreary day
adjective
Causing sadness or gloom.
The dreary news of his death brought us all to tears.
Often appears as...
- dreary news
- dreary circumstances
adjective
Lacking in liveliness or happiness. It has a depressing or boring feeling.
I woke up to another dreary day of rain.
Often appears as...
- dreary weather
- dreary day
adjective
Causing sadness or gloom.
The dreary news of his death brought us all to tears.
Often appears as...
- dreary news
- dreary circumstances
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Connection
Often used to describe unpleasant weather that impacts mood.
The sky was a dreary expanse of grey all weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Boredom Feeling
Implies that something is so uninteresting it becomes tiresome.
He found the lecture dreary; it seemed to drag on forever.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective View
What's considered 'dreary' can vary depending on personal feelings.
She loves rain, but her brother finds rainy days dreary.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Connection
Often used to describe unpleasant weather that impacts mood.
The sky was a dreary expanse of grey all weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Boredom Feeling
Implies that something is so uninteresting it becomes tiresome.
He found the lecture dreary; it seemed to drag on forever.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective View
What's considered 'dreary' can vary depending on personal feelings.
She loves rain, but her brother finds rainy days dreary.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Connection
Often used to describe unpleasant weather that impacts mood.
The sky was a dreary expanse of grey all weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Boredom Feeling
Implies that something is so uninteresting it becomes tiresome.
He found the lecture dreary; it seemed to drag on forever.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective View
What's considered 'dreary' can vary depending on personal feelings.
She loves rain, but her brother finds rainy days dreary.
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How we can design...
Well, you can't build this, either. By contrast, today, when we have to build a major new apartment building somewhere, we have to build lots and lots of elevators and lots of fire stairs, and we have to connect them with these long, anonymous, dreary corridors.
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Meet Gita, the robot...
for that that would be a pretty dreary rectilinear dystopia jito learns the optimal pathways through the world by following an expert guide namely you or me in this particular case as it travels it creates detailed three-dimensional
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The Search for...
We always think of them as being something like biological robots, doomed to live out their lives in lockstep, shackled to the dreary roles assigned to them by nature. This is our first contact story.
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How we can design...
Well, you can't build this, either. By contrast, today, when we have to build a major new apartment building somewhere, we have to build lots and lots of elevators and lots of fire stairs, and we have to connect them with these long, anonymous, dreary corridors.
Video examples
Meet Gita, the robot...
for that that would be a pretty dreary rectilinear dystopia jito learns the optimal pathways through the world by following an expert guide namely you or me in this particular case as it travels it creates detailed three-dimensional
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The Search for...
We always think of them as being something like biological robots, doomed to live out their lives in lockstep, shackled to the dreary roles assigned to them by nature. This is our first contact story.
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Quote examples
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Algerian Athlete
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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George Borrow
British Author
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik
American Clergyman
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
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Ivan Turgenev
Russian Novelist
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Sheila Hancock
On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.
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Victoria Moran
American Writer
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Alexandra Stoddard
Author
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.
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Faith Baldwin
American Novelist
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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George Eliot
British Author
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Algerian Athlete
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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George Borrow
British Author
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik
American Clergyman
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
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Ivan Turgenev
Russian Novelist
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Sheila Hancock
On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.
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Victoria Moran
American Writer
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Alexandra Stoddard
Author
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.
Quote examples
Faith Baldwin
American Novelist
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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George Eliot
British Author
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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