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Webster 1913 Edition
Dreary
Drear′y
(drēr′y̆)
, Adj.
[
Com
par.
Drearier
; sup
erl.
Dreariest
.] 1.
Sorrowful; distressful.
[Obs.]
“ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dreary
DREARY
,Adj.
1.
Dismal; gloomy; as a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and gloom.2.
Sorrowful; distressing; as dreary shrieks.