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Word Meanings - DREARINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sorrow; wretchedness. 2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

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  • SORROW
    The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
  • SORROWED
    Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
  • GLOOMY
    1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
  • SORROWLESS
    Free from sorrow.
  • SOLITUDE
    1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper. 2. Remoteness
  • SORROWFUL
    1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
  • DISMALNESS
    The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
  • WRETCHEDNESS
    1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
  • OVERSORROW
    To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
  • SEEK-SORROW
    One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • UNSORROWED
    Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.

 

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