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dreary
Overview of adj dreary
The adj dreary has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary -- (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. (1) drab, dreary -- (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")
Antonyms of adj dreary
2 senses of dreary
Sense 1
blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
INDIRECT (VIA cheerless) -> cheerful
Sense 2
drab, dreary
INDIRECT (VIA dull) -> lively
Similarity of adj dreary
2 senses of dreary
Sense 1
blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
=> cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful
Sense 2
drab, dreary
=> dull (vs. lively)
Pertainyms of adj dreary
Attributes of adj dreary
Domain of adj dreary
Domain Terms of adj dreary
Familiarity of adj dreary
dreary used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj dreary
dreary
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