Synonyms for Dreary:

• adj.

  •arid (adjective)
  • in-sipid,
  • un-animated,
  • in sipid,
  • un-inspired,
  • un inspired,
  • most unanimated,
  • un animated,
  • insipid,
  • more unanimated.
  •black (adjective)
  • depressive,
  • sombre,
  • sombrer.
  •blah (adjective)
  • banausic,
  • yawn producing.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • dis-heartening,
  • de sert,
  • de-sert,
  • most bulldozed,
  • dis heartening,
  • more unpopulated,
  • most scorched,
  • more deforested,
  • most windswept,
  • hopeless,
  • drearer,
  • un populated,
  • ex posed,
  • un-populated,
  • more unpromising,
  • de-forested,
  • more bulldozed,
  • most blighted,
  • most deforested,
  • de forested,
  • more scorched,
  • un promising,
  • most unpromising,
  • stripped,
  • un-promising,
  • un sheltered,
  • un-sheltered,
  • more windswept,
  • more disheartening,
  • ex-posed,
  • weather beaten,
  • drearest,
  • most unpopulated,
  • more blighted,
  • most disheartening.
  •boring (adjective)
  • commonplace,
  • boring,
  • prosaic,
  • mundane,
  • wearisome,
  • tiresome.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • in dumps,
  • most drearisome,
  • de-pressed,
  • un comfortable,
  • mopiest,
  • mopier,
  • most dejecting,
  • draggier,
  • in the dumps,
  • more dejecting,
  • more drearisome,
  • un-comfortable,
  • mopey,
  • draggiest,
  • de pressed,
  • jarring.
  •colorless (adjective)
  • unmemorable,
  • characterless,
  • run of the mill,
  • Unpassioned.
  •dark (adjective)
  • shadowy,
  • shaded,
  • dark,
  • sooty,
  • gloomy,
  • swarthy,
  • lightless,
  • inky,
  • dusky,
  • somber,
  • shady,
  • darkened,
  • silhouetted,
  • dim,
  • umbrageous,
  • cloudy,
  • dismal,
  • black,
  • obscure.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • despairing,
  • contemplative,
  • overcome,
  • anguished,
  • despondent,
  • discouraged,
  • disheartened,
  • pensive,
  • lachrymose,
  • dolorous,
  • woeful,
  • moody,
  • dejected,
  • downhearted,
  • heartbroken,
  • morose,
  • mournful,
  • glum,
  • blue,
  • wistful,
  • melancholy,
  • sullen,
  • miserable,
  • grim,
  • plaintive,
  • anxious,
  • sad,
  • depressed,
  • dispirited.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • de-pressing,
  • de pressing,
  • more saddening,
  • more daunting,
  • most saddening,
  • most daunting.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • barren,
  • deserted,
  • bare,
  • solitary,
  • inhospitable,
  • forsaken,
  • forgotten,
  • desert,
  • lonely,
  • uninhabited,
  • forlorn,
  • abandoned.
  •dim (adjective)
  • opaque,
  • dusk,
  • mater,
  • fainter,
  • poorly lit,
  • unilluminated.
  •dingy (adjective)
  • most smirched,
  • more smirched,
  • more bedimmed,
  • more discolored,
  • be-dimmed,
  • dis colored,
  • more darkish,
  • most darkish,
  • be dimmed,
  • brokendown,
  • most discolored,
  • dis-colored,
  • most bedimmed.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • more torn-up,
  • more torn up,
  • grief stricken,
  • most crushed,
  • most tornup,
  • most hurting,
  • more hurting,
  • more crushed,
  • in-consolable,
  • tornup,
  • more tornup,
  • in consolable,
  • most torn up,
  • in pits,
  • most ripped,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most torn-up,
  • dis tressed,
  • more ripped.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • in opportune,
  • more dissuading,
  • dis-appointing,
  • more hindering,
  • most repressing,
  • most offputting,
  • more off putting,
  • in-opportune,
  • un propitious,
  • most dismaying,
  • more repressing,
  • un-propitious,
  • most hindering,
  • dis maying,
  • dis-maying,
  • most off putting,
  • most dampening,
  • unpropitious,
  • most dissuading,
  • off putting,
  • dis advantageous,
  • re pressing,
  • more dampening,
  • more offputting,
  • re-pressing,
  • more dismaying,
  • offputting,
  • dis appointing,
  • un favorable,
  • most off-putting,
  • more off-putting,
  • un-favorable,
  • dis-advantageous.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • painful,
  • doleful,
  • Dirgeful,
  • cast down,
  • down in mouth,
  • Dolent.
  •dour (adjective)
  • most crabbed,
  • forbidding,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-friendly,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-friendliest.
  •drab (adjective)
  • sub-fuse,
  • un-changing,
  • more lusterless,
  • most lusterless,
  • sub fuse,
  • most subfuse,
  • more subfuse,
  • more zero,
  • un changing,
  • most zero.
  •dry (adjective)
  • inelaborate,
  • impassive,
  • ho hum,
  • matter of fact.
  •dull (adjective)
  • prosy,
  • usual thing,
  • stocker,
  • out of date,
  • earthbound,
  • wornout,
  • oft-repeated,
  • repetitive,
  • out-of-date,
  • big yawn,
  • longwinded.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • dirgelike.
  •gaunt (adjective)
  • skin bones,
  • most skeleton,
  • more skeleton,
  • most pinched,
  • like bag bones,
  • more attenuated,
  • most attenuated,
  • peakiest,
  • like a bag bones,
  • like bag of bones,
  • scraggier,
  • more pinched,
  • peakier.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • more crepuscular,
  • more unlit,
  • more acherontic,
  • over clouded,
  • most overclouded,
  • most crepuscular,
  • most acheronian,
  • more overclouded,
  • most unlit,
  • over-clouded,
  • most acherontic,
  • more acheronian.
  •gloomy, lifeless (adjective)
  • windy,
  • wretched,
  • comfortless,
  • oppressive,
  • sorrowful,
  • raw,
  • damp,
  • downcast,
  • wintry,
  • routine.
  •gray (adjective)
  • grizzled,
  • pearly,
  • smoky,
  • lead-gray,
  • dapple-gray,
  • taupe,
  • gun metal,
  • battleship-gray,
  • leaden,
  • mousy,
  • ashen,
  • gray,
  • salt-and-pepper,
  • pearl-gray,
  • neutral-tint,
  • iron-gray,
  • silvery,
  • mole-gray.
  •humdrum (adjective)
  • more white-bread,
  • most whitebread,
  • more treadmill,
  • un varied,
  • most treadmill,
  • most toneless,
  • most white-bread,
  • more unvaried,
  • more whitebread,
  • most unvaried,
  • most white bread,
  • un-varied,
  • gardenvariety,
  • more white bread,
  • more toneless,
  • dime dozen.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • more depressant,
  • most dragged,
  • more dragged,
  • most depressant,
  • have blahs.
  •monotonous (adjective)
  • more samely,
  • most reiterated,
  • most ho hum,
  • more sing-song,
  • uninflected,
  • most ho-hum,
  • most nothing,
  • un relieved,
  • more uninflected,
  • re current,
  • re-current,
  • un inflected,
  • more droning,
  • most sing-song,
  • most hohum,
  • more singsong,
  • puts sleep,
  • un changed,
  • more ho hum,
  • sing song,
  • un varying,
  • more ho-hum,
  • re-iterated,
  • puts one sleep,
  • more reiterated,
  • more hohum,
  • more nothing,
  • most droning,
  • most singsong,
  • more sing song,
  • most uninflected,
  • most sing song,
  • un-relieved,
  • most samely,
  • un-changed,
  • uni-form,
  • uni form,
  • un-inflected,
  • re iterated,
  • un-varying.
  •murky (adjective)
  • mis-tier,
  • mis tier,
  • un cleaner,
  • un-cleaner,
  • more nubilous,
  • most darkened,
  • most glowering,
  • un-cleanest,
  • more glowering,
  • dunest,
  • un clean,
  • more darkened,
  • duner,
  • un cleanest,
  • most nubilous.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • not clear,
  • overcast,
  • clouded over,
  • not fair.
  •pedestrian (adjective)
  • truistic.
  •sad (adjective)
  • more heart-rending,
  • up setting,
  • heart rending,
  • up-setting,
  • most heart-rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • more discomposing,
  • most discomposing,
  • tearjerking,
  • un satisfactory,
  • tear jerking,
  • dis composing,
  • more heart rending,
  • dis-composing,
  • tearful.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most sourpuss,
  • nononsense,
  • more sourpuss.
  •stark (adjective)
  • more undraped,
  • un clad,
  • most undraped,
  • un-draped,
  • un clothed,
  • un draped,
  • un-clad,
  • most unclothed,
  • more unclothed,
  • un-clothed,
  • un covered.
  •stuffy (adjective)
  • self-important,
  • puffy,
  • prim and proper,
  • humorless.
  •tedious (adjective)
  • more drudging,
  • most pabulum,
  • long drawn out,
  • snoozest,
  • most enervating,
  • more pabulum,
  • most drudging,
  • snoozer,
  • more enervating.
  •tenebrific (adjective)
  • in low spirits,
  • down in the dumps,
  • Mopish,
  • down in dumps,
  • broody.
  •unappealing (adjective)
  • sub fuscous,
  • most unbeauteous,
  • un beauteous,
  • more unbeauteous,
  • un-inviting,
  • more subfuscous,
  • most subfuscous,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-beauteous,
  • un attractive,
  • sub-fuscous,
  • un inviting,
  • un-appetizing,
  • dis-gusting,
  • dis gusting,
  • un-appealing,
  • un appetizing,
  • un-attractive,
  • un-pleasant,
  • un appealing.
  •unexciting (adjective)
  • un exciting,
  • long winded,
  • un-exciting,
  • un-eventful.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • more bleeding,
  • most let down,
  • un-happier,
  • long faced,
  • un-happiest,
  • un-happy,
  • more long-faced,
  • unhappy,
  • un happier,
  • most long faced,
  • un happiest,
  • more letdown,
  • un happy,
  • most let-down,
  • most saddened,
  • more let-down,
  • heavy hearted,
  • most long-faced,
  • more let down,
  • longfaced,
  • in a blue funk,
  • most mirthless,
  • more long faced,
  • more longfaced,
  • most letdown,
  • most bleeding,
  • most longfaced,
  • more mirthless,
  • more saddened,
  • down out.
  •uninteresting (adjective)
  • un-interesting,
  • un entertaining,
  • most unenjoyable,
  • un enjoyable,
  • more nowhere,
  • more unentertaining,
  • most unentertaining,
  • un-enjoyable,
  • unentertaining,
  • more unenjoyable,
  • un-entertaining,
  • most nowhere,
  • un interesting.
  •weariful (adjective)
  • more well worn,
  • well worn,
  • in terminable,
  • wellworn,
  • most well worn,
  • more wellworn,
  • stereo typed,
  • in-terminable,
  • more well-worn,
  • most well-worn,
  • most wellworn,
  • more cloying,
  • bombest,
  • inter-minable,
  • draggest,
  • motheaten.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • chapfallen,
  • woebegone,
  • shot down,
  • down-in-the-mouth.

• n.

  •
  • excite,
  • weary.
  •drab (noun)
  • drab.
  •dreary (noun)
  • sorry,
  • uncheerful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • soporific,
  • lackluster,
  • plodding,
  • ritual,
  • serviceable,
  • repetitious,
  • featureless,
  • tenebrific,
  • forgettable,
  • Weariful,
  • stupefying,
  • lifeless,
  • uninspired,
  • laborious,
  • old-hat,
  • Stultifying,
  • unimaginative,
  • anodyne,
  • soulless,
  • banal,
  • tired,
  • sterile,
  • unexciting,
  • trivial,
  • formulaic,
  • uninspiring,
  • uneventful,
  • labored,
  • jerkwater,
  • unexceptionable,
  • hackneyed,
  • pallid,
  • shopworn,
  • dispiriting.
  •
  • inert,
  • worthy,
  • middle-aged,
  • readable,
  • clinical.
  •
  • deadly,
  • bland,
  • Irksome,
  • derivative.
  •
  • dead.
  •futile
  • waste.
  •infernal
  • stygian.

Paraphrases for Dreary:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    boring, dull, dismal, depressing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    annoying, gloomy, grim, bleak, miserable.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    tedious, sad.

Antonyms for Dreary:

• adj.

  • gloomy, lifeless
    exciting, lively, colorful, nice, hopeful, happy, light, encouraging, glad, interesting, joyful, pleasant, cheerful, eventful, clear, bright.
  • Other antonyms:
    awesome, animating, moving, joyous, optimistic, lighthearted, marvelous, spellbinding, amazing, mesmerizing, friendly, comforting, eye-opening, provocative, enlivening, uplifting, heartwarming, lightsome, invigorating, spectacular, cordial, beguiling, sunshiny, astonishing, fabulous, energizing, astounding, touching, rousing, wonderful, tantalizing, buoyant, wondrous, sensational, surprising, suspenseful.

Homophones for Dreary:

• deodar, dower, draw, deary, dead air, durio, drier, Diarrhea, durer, doorway, draw away, deere, doura, door, dior, doer, dewar, dory, datura, didder, dourah, detour, dodder, dryer, dither, drear, drey, dare, doddery, drawer, dodderer, death row, dire, death adder, duty tour, drew, derriere, dry, dearie, diarrhoea, dietary, dowry, dowery, dura, drawee, dray, darrow, dyer, deter, deer, diary, dear, dari, Dieter, dairy, durra, Dr., dour.