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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Dismal; bleak.
  2. adj. Boring; dull: dreary tasks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Sorrowful; sad.
  2. Lonesomely dismal or gloomy; exciting a feeling of desolation, sadness, or gloom.
  3. Hence Exciting a feeling of tedium or ennui; tiresomely monotonous: as, a dreary book.
  4. Synonyms and Cheerless, comfortless, drear, dark. Tedious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Grievous, dire; appalling.
  2. adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Sorrowful; distressful.
  2. adj. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing dejection
  2. adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ ("dreary, sad, sorrowful, mournful, pensive, causing grief, cruel, horrid, grievous, bloody, blood-stained, gory, glorious"), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreus- (“to break, break off, crumble”). Cognate with Dutch treurig ("sad, gloomy"), German traurig ("sad, sorrowful, mournful"), Old Norse dreyrigr ("bloody"). Related to Old English drēor ("blood, falling blood"), Old English drysmian ("to become gloomy"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English dreri, bloody, frightened, sad, from Old English drēorig, bloody, sad, from drēor, gore; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Prolagus It's a dark and dreary night
    Seems like nothing's going right
    Won't you tell me honey how can I go on here without you?


    ("Ring Ring", by ABBA) May 19, 2008

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