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单词 dreary
释义
dreary
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈdrɪə.ri/us
/ˈdrɪr.i/
boringand making youfeelunhappy:
沉闷的，单调乏味的，令人沮丧的
a dreary littletown沉闷的小城
She hadspentanother drearydayin theoffice.她在办公室里又度过了枯燥的一天。
Synonyms
boring
drabdisapproving
dry(BORING)disapproving
dull
ho-hum
monotonous
tedious
uninteresting
wearisomeformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not interesting or exciting
  • boringThat was such a boring film I nearly fell asleep during it.
  • excruciatingShe went over the plot of the book in excruciating detail.
  • deadlyHis latest film was just deadly. I left after the first hour!
  • mind-numbingThe incident was described in a mind-numbing, 400-page report so dense that no one read it.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Tedious and uninspiring
  • anonymous
  • banal
  • basic
  • be (as) dull as ditchwateridiom
  • bland
  • marginal
  • marmoreal
  • meh
  • menial
  • middle-aged
  • slow
  • soulless
  • spinach
  • staid
  • stale
  • staleness
  • stuffy
  • tame
  • turgid
  • worthy
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Related words

drearily
dreariness
(Definition ofdrearyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dreary| American Dictionary

dreary
adjective
us
/ˈdrɪər·i/
unattractiveand having nothing of anyinterest, andthereforelikelyto make yousad:
It was agray, drearyday, withperiodsofrain.
(Definition ofdrearyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdreary

dreary
The problem may seemdrearybut it still needs spelling out in detail.
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The text, in traditional number-opera format, is indeed stilted anddreary.
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Thus,drearywas also assigned to the class of disyllabic words.
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Spiritualist treatises are, in most cases,drearycompendiums of facts and observations.
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All that television can offer instead is adrearykeyhole peep at the teenage clan in action.
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Another reason may be that church members help older people materially and visit them, probably a welcome change in theirdrearyexistence.
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He gives a clear account of the issues involved in what he calls 'thedrearyold nature-nurture problem'.
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So the building is notdrearyand dull.
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It is not just another volume in the long and oftendrearyhistory of usage guides.
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By now architecture has turned its back ondrearypractice to reinvent itself.
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All was hopelesslydrearyand unclean.
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It should not bedreary.
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His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'this blather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'drearygruel' (the output of those linguists).
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It's adrearydull day.
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We should all lead verydrearylives if we shut our politics away in a watertight compartment.
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