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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dreary \Drear"y\, a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl. {Dreariest}.] [OE. dreori dreri AS dre['o]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig and prob. to AS dre['o]san to fall, Goth. driusan Cf {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.] 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.
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