What is another word for dreary?
661 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɹˈi͡əɹi], [ dɹˈiəɹi], [ d_ɹ_ˈiə_ɹ_i]
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Similar words for dreary:
- arid (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- blah (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- boring (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- colorless (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- discouraging (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dour (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gaunt (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- gloomy, lifeless (adjective)
- gray (adjective)
- humdrum (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- monotonous (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- pedestrian (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- stark (adjective)
- stuffy (adjective)
- tedious (adjective)
- tenebrific (adjective)
- unappealing (adjective)
- unexciting (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- weariful (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- drab (noun)
- dreary (noun)
- other synonyms
- futile
- infernal
Synonyms for Dreary:
adj.
• arid (adjective)- in-sipid,
- un-animated,
- in sipid,
- un-inspired,
- un inspired,
- most unanimated,
- un animated,
- insipid,
- more unanimated.
- 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.
- 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.
- shadowy,
- shaded,
- dark,
- sooty,
- gloomy,
- swarthy,
- lightless,
- inky,
- dusky,
- somber,
- shady,
- darkened,
- silhouetted,
- dim,
- umbrageous,
- cloudy,
- dismal,
- black,
- obscure.
- 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.
- barren,
- deserted,
- bare,
- solitary,
- inhospitable,
- forsaken,
- forgotten,
- desert,
- lonely,
- uninhabited,
- forlorn,
- abandoned.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- most crabbed,
- forbidding,
- un friendliest,
- un-friendlier,
- un-friendly,
- un friendlier,
- un-friendliest.
- sub-fuse,
- un-changing,
- more lusterless,
- most lusterless,
- sub fuse,
- most subfuse,
- more subfuse,
- more zero,
- un changing,
- most zero.
- prosy,
- usual thing,
- stocker,
- out of date,
- earthbound,
- wornout,
- oft-repeated,
- repetitive,
- out-of-date,
- big yawn,
- longwinded.
- 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.
- more crepuscular,
- more unlit,
- more acherontic,
- over clouded,
- most overclouded,
- most crepuscular,
- most acheronian,
- more overclouded,
- most unlit,
- over-clouded,
- most acherontic,
- more acheronian.
- windy,
- wretched,
- comfortless,
- oppressive,
- sorrowful,
- raw,
- damp,
- downcast,
- wintry,
- routine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dun,
- well-worn,
- in the pits,
- cheerless,
- darkish,
- stark,
- acheronian,
- off-putting,
- sepulchral,
- sing-song,
- griefstricken,
- joyless,
- toneless,
- long-faced,
- nowhere,
- drear,
- unappealing,
- overclouded,
- dour,
- whitebread,
- gaunt,
- depressing,
- uninteresting,
- in pain,
- colorless,
- torn up,
- windswept,
- undraped,
- singsong,
- institutional,
- like a bag of bones,
- unpopulated,
- unenjoyable,
- samely,
- monotonous,
- let-down,
- lusterless,
- weatherbeaten,
- deforested,
- heart-rending,
- unbeauteous,
- puts to sleep,
- broken down,
- dragger,
- dry,
- bummed out,
- tedious,
- no nonsense,
- white bread,
- crepuscular,
- desolate,
- dull as dishwater,
- lonesome,
- humdrum,
- Nubilous,
- dull,
- flat as pancake,
- bleak,
- disconsolate,
- dingy,
- in blue funk,
- unpromising,
- hohum,
- acherontic,
- blah,
- subfuse,
- have the blahs,
- peaky,
- murky,
- draggy,
- puts one to sleep,
- scraggy,
- unanimated,
- Drearisome,
- unlit,
- stuffy,
- unvaried,
- skin and bones,
- white-bread,
- mirthless,
- pedestrian,
- stodgy,
- down and out,
- garden variety,
- discouraging,
- Subfuscous,
- ho-hum,
- torn-up,
- scraggiest.
- 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.
- more undraped,
- un clad,
- most undraped,
- un-draped,
- un clothed,
- un draped,
- un-clad,
- most unclothed,
- more unclothed,
- un-clothed,
- un covered.
- more drudging,
- most pabulum,
- long drawn out,
- snoozest,
- most enervating,
- more pabulum,
- most drudging,
- snoozer,
- more enervating.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
• drab (noun)- drab.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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•
- inert,
- worthy,
- middle-aged,
- readable,
- clinical.
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- deadly,
- bland,
- Irksome,
- derivative.
-
•
- dead.
Paraphrases for Dreary:
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Adjective
boring, depressing, dismal, dull.
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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.
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