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# dreary

«dreary» in Mova's school dictionary: **dull, grey and making you feel sad or bored, like a wet…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dreary, drearier, dreariest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dreary means dull, grey and making you feel sad or bored, like a wet, cloudy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#m1)

2) A dreary job, book or talk is boring and has nothing exciting in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Describes weather and settings in stories to set a gloomy mood; also boring tasks. Phrases: dreary day, dreary weather, dreary work.

### examples

- It was a dreary, drizzly Monday morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x1)
- The dreary grey sky made everyone sleepy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x2)
- Copying out spellings felt like a dreary job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x3)
- The house looked dreary until we painted it yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x4)
- The speech was long and dreary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x5)
- We cheered up a dreary afternoon with a board game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x6)
- Oh, indeed those long winter days were very dreary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/#x7)

### note

Drearier, dreariest. Similar: dull, gloomy, bleak. Not spelled «dreery». Do not mix up with «dream» or «weary» (tired), though dreary days can make you weary.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dreary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.