Definition of Dreary

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Definition of Dreary
	Dreary Sorrowful; distressful. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. Related Definitions: Cheerless, Comfortless, Dismal, Distressful, Exciting, Gloomy, Or, Sorrowful

Dreary Quotations

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
Zebulon Pike

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare

Dreary Translations

dreary in Afrikaans is donker, onaangenaam
dreary in Dutch is afschuwelijk
dreary in Finnish is surullinen
dreary in Hungarian is kietlen
dreary in Italian is abominevole, orrendo, spaventoso
dreary in Norwegian is ensom, trist, kjedelig
dreary in Spanish is triste

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