Word Meanings - DREARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan 1. Sorrowful; distressful. " Dreary shrieks." Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden.

Additional info about word: DREARY

dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan 1. Sorrowful; distressful. " Dreary shrieks." Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DREARY)

• Lonesome
• Forlorn
• dreary
• forsaken
• Wild
• solitary
• desolate
• lonely
• Tedious
• Wearisome
• tiresome
• monotonous
• dilatory
• sluggish
• irksome
• dull
• flat
• prolix

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DREARY)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to DREARY)

• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• FORLORNNESS
  State of being forlorn. Boyle.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• IRKSOME
  1. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton. 2. Weary; vexed; uneasy. Let us therefore learn not to
• COLONIZER
  One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• LONESOME
  1. Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge 2. Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome. -- Lone"some*ly, adv.
• MONOTONOUS
  Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.
• DEVELOP
  To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. (more info) voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.