Definition of dreary

"dreary" in the adjective sense

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"

2. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, 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"

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Quotations for dreary

Days of absence, sad and dreary;
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away. [ Rousseau ]

Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary. [ Longfellow ]

Yonder cloud,
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire. [ Tennyson ]

Life without laughing is a dreary blank. [ Thackeray ]

I will this dreary blank of absence make,
A noble task-time, and will therein strive
To follow excellence, and to overtake
More good than I have won since yet I live. [ Francis Kemble ]

Lend me thy clarion goodness! let me try
To sound the praise of merit ere it dies.
Such as I oft have chanced to espy,
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]

Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. [ George Eliot ]

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]

O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. [ Emerson ]

The crudest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. [ Emerson ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard pavement of poor Picciola's prison was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here amid rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And O, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ Chapin ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature; and oh, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ E. H. Chapin ]

The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]

dreary in Scrabble®

The word dreary is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters dreary:

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dreary in Words With Friends™

The word dreary is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters dreary:

DREARY
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Words within the letters of dreary

2 letter words in dreary (6 words)

3 letter words in dreary (14 words)

4 letter words in dreary (11 words)

5 letter words in dreary (10 words)

6 letter words in dreary (1 word)

dreary + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence dreary

Words that start with dreary (1 word)

Words with dreary in them (1 word)

Words that end with dreary (1 word)

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