单词	dreary
释义	drearydrear‧y /ˈdrɪəri $ ˈdrɪri/ (also drear /drɪə $ drɪr/ literary) adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINdreary Origin: Old English dreorig ‘bloody, sad’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES dreary weather Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find. I was living in a dreary apartment in a run-down part of town. Laurie gazed out over a dreary landscape of factories and parking lots. This room is so dreary. How can we brighten it up? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS In the dreary new settlements revivalist contests also provided entertainment. It can be the dreary horror of ribbon development. It was all dreary, dreary, just as he had anticipated. She might under some circumstances be submissive, like these dreary girls you see padding along in the moccasin tracks of hippies. The sight of her filled Liz with a subdued and dreary panic. There was George - dull, dreary George - sprawled full-length on the settee, his nose deep in a book as usual. They kissed her and all had another glass of fizz before Charles started the dreary journey back to Willesden on the Underground. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorplace► boring not at all interesting or exciting to live in: · This is such a boring town - there's nothing to do in the evenings.· It's so boring here. I wish we lived in L.A. ► dead a town that is dead is boring because nothing interesting happens, and there is nothing interesting to do: · In summer we get a few visitors, but most of the time this place is dead.· It's absolutely dead here when all the students go away for the summer vacation. ► nothing ever happens spoken if you say nothing ever happens in a place, you mean nothing interesting or exciting happens there: · Nothing ever happens around here. Why do you like it so much? ► dreary a dreary place is one where there is nothing attractive or cheerful to see: · I was living in a dreary apartment in a run-down part of town.· Laurie gazed out over a dreary landscape of factories and parking lots. ► drab buildings and places that are drab are not colourful or interesting to look at: · When I came to Manchester from Brazil everything seemed so drab and colourless.· You enter the drab office building half-expecting it to be abandoned. ► featureless : featureless landscape/plain/coast etc a large area of land that has no interesting or unusual features: · It was flat, featureless coastline.· In the middle of these otherwise featureless plains is a striking range of mountains. making you feel sad► sad use this about a story, piece of music, period of time etc that makes you feel sad: sad time/day/moment/occasion etc: · The day her son left home was one of the saddest days of her life.sad news/story/song etc: · Fairuz sang a sad song that made us all feel homesick.· I don't like movies with sad endings.it is sad that: · It's very sad that she died before her children grew up. ► unhappy : unhappy childhood/marriage/year etc a time when you are unhappy because you are in a difficult or unpleasant situation: · Phil was married for three unhappy years.· Looking at that photo always bring back unhappy memories.· an unhappy love affair ► depressing a depressing experience, story, piece of news etc makes you feel that there is nothing to be happy about and not much hope for the future: · The Deerhunter was a very depressing movie about Vietnam.· It's such a depressing town - it's full of ugly, disused factories.· Listening to the news can be really depressing, when all you ever hear about is violence and crime. ► upsetting an upsetting experience or event makes you feel very sad and often shocked: · Seeing her lying there in a hospital bed was a very upsetting experience.· She can't talk about her son's death - she finds it too upsetting.it is upsetting to find/know/learn etc something: · It's very upsetting to arrive home and find that your house has been burgled. ► miserable a time that is miserable is one when you are extremely unhappy because you are in a very unpleasant situation: · Factory workers during the 18th century led miserable lives.· The journey home was miserable. Everyone was depressed about losing the game. ► heartbreaking/heart-rending a story, event, piece of news etc that is heartbreaking makes you feel extremely sad and sorry or extremely disappointed: · It's a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides that it's time to quit.· The decision to kill the infected animals was a heart-rending one for farmers.it is heartbreaking to see/learn etc something: · Having worked so hard to start the business, it would be heartbreaking to see it all collapse. ► dismal a dismal place, situation, or time makes you feel unhappy and not at all hopeful: · It was a grey, dismal November afternoon.· Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.· The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%. ► dreary a place, activity, or time that is dreary is not at all interesting or enjoyable and makes you feel unhappy: · This room is so dreary. How can we brighten it up?· a dreary winter's day· Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find. ► bleak a place or situation that is bleak is one in which there is nothing to make you feel cheerful or hopeful about the future: · The wild landscape was bleak and bare.· He gazed around the empty, bleak little room in despair.· Many people were facing a financially bleak Christmas.· The chief executive said that the company was looking at a bleak future.the outlook/prospect/future etc is bleak : · Prospects of success looked bleak as the opposition scored the first two goals. dull and making you feel sad or bored:  the same dreary routine a dreary winter’s day—dreariness noun [uncountable]
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