Thesaurus / dreary
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The Washington Nationals turned to Max Scherzer to salvage the final game of a dreary Memorial Day weekend series against the Milwaukee Brewers before they depart for a long and potentially meaningful road trip.
THE NATIONALS’ BATS REMAIN ABSENT, AND ONE MAX SCHERZER MISCUE YIELDS A FOURTH STRAIGHT LOSSGENE WANGMAY 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe mention of summer school conjured up images of sweaty classrooms and dreary assignments meted out as makeup work for a year of flunked tests, missing projects or excessive absences.
AS THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDS, MANY DISTRICTS EXPAND SUMMER SCHOOL OPTIONSJOE HEIM, VALERIE STRAUSS, LAURA MECKLERAPRIL 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBut for the trees, these sullen skies and level grounds would render England dreary enough.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThey rented a house, for the place didn't afford a parsonage, and began the long dreary year that was to follow.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXA damp mist rose from the river and the marshy ground about, and spread itself over the dreary fields.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENSI know this small organ well—an old friend on dreary mornings, putting the laziest riser in a good humor for the day.
THE REAL LATIN QUARTERF. BERKELEY SMITHIt looked on to Hyde Park, and a very white and dreary park it was on that particular day.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODThe royal family were still in the dungeons of the Temple, lingering through the dreary hours of the most desolate imprisonment.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTSometimes he loitered alone, from sunrise to sunset, in the dreary and rugged wilderness which surrounds the Escurial.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYBut what an awful scene of dreary desolation presented itself when they got there!
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNESYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 17, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO DREARY
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
- black
- bleak
- blue
- caliginous
- cloudy
- dark
- depressive
- dim
- dingy
- dire
- dismal
- dispiriting
- doleful
- down
- drab
- dragged
- dreary
- dull
- dusky
- earnest
- funereal
- gloomy
- grave
- grim
- hurting
- joyless
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- murky
- no-nonsense
- obscure
- sedate
- sepulchral
- serious
- shadowy
- shady
- sober
- solemn
- sourpuss
- staid
- tenebrous
- weighty
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