Definitions for dreary

dreary drear·y

Spelling: [dreer-ee]
IPA: /ˈdrɪər i/

Dreary is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in dreary (aderry).

Definitions for dreary

adjective

  1. causing sadness or gloom.
  2. dull; boring.
  3. sorrowful; sad.

Origin of dreary

before 900; Middle English drery, Old English drēorig gory, cruel, sad, equivalent to drēor gore + -ig -y1; akin to Old Norse dreyrigr bloody, German traurig

Examples for dreary

I have one dreary, cold room, as unlike this as two rooms can be.

The Daily Beast met Stevens in a dreary New York hotel room.

He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.

There was the dreary monotone of crushed hope in Porter's voice as he spoke.

(Read More on the Crisis in Ukraine) Old, numerous and bipartisan are the tales that corroborate this dreary hypothesis.

Unlike the dreary industrial region of Donbass where the fighting is concentrated, Crimea has great potential as a tourist center.

The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest.

Roberts starred as the titular servant in the dreary drama, with Malkovich as Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr.

All was deep, dreary darkness, but Siegfried had not learned fear.

Nearly a year after the shootings in Newtown, Murphy was again in Bridgeport City Hall, on a dreary Thursday.

Word Value for dreary
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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