dreary

English - Turkish

Definition of dreary in English Turkish dictionary

{s} kasvetli

Kasvetli bir manzara, her yöne millerce yayıldı. - A dreary landscape spread out for miles in all directions.

Bütün hayatım boyunca böyle kasvetli bir mezarlık görmedim. - Never in all my life have I seen such a dreary graveyard.

{s} iç karartıcı

{s} ahmak

can sıkıcı

bunaltıcı

{s} budala

üzgün

üzücü

sıkıntılı

{s} kederli

hazin

{s} hüzünlü

{s} ümitsiz

{s} kasvetli, sıkıcı

sıkıcı/iç karartıcı

Related Terms

drearily

sıkıcı bir şekilde

dreariness

{i} belirsizlik

dreariness

{i} melankoli

dreariness

{i} keder

dreariness

{i} hüzün

dreariness

{i} kasvet

English - English

Definition of dreary in English English dictionary

Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.

Grievous, dire; appalling

They gan to fight returne, increasing more / Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce, / With heaped strokes more hugely, then before, / That with their drerie wounds and bloudy gore / They both deformed .

{a} mournful, dismal, floomy, sad

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"

depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B A Williams

{s} dreary, gloomy, depressing, dismal; tedious, boring

If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. a dreary little town in the Midwest = dismal + drearily dreari·ly a drearily familiar scenario. dull and making you feel sad or bored

Sorrowful; distressful

Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy

drear

Related Terms

dreariness

{n} gloominess, heaviness, dulness

Dreariness

dreariment

drearier

comparative of dreary

dreariest

superlative of dreary

drearily

In a dreary manner

drearily

dismally, gloomily, in a depressing manner

drearily

Gloomily; dismally

dreariness

{i} sadness, depressiveness; gloominess, drabness; tediousness

dreariness

The characteristic of being dreary

dreariness

Dismalness; gloomy solitude

dreariness

Sorrow; wretchedness

dreariness

extreme dullness

Hyphenation

drea·ry

Turkish pronunciation

drîri

Synonyms

black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, comfortless, damp, depressing, depressive, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, downcast

Antonyms

bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant

Pronunciation

/ˈdrərē/ /ˈdrɪriː/

Etymology

[ 'drir-E ] (adjective.) before 12th century. From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“dreary, sad, sorrowful, mournful, pensive, causing grief, cruel, horrid, grievous, bloody, blood-stained, gory, glorious”), from Proto-Germanic *driuzigaz, *drūzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreus- (“to break, break off, crumble”). Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).