dreary
adjective
1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- a series of dreary dinner parties
2. causing depression
Similar word(s): cheerless, depressing, uncheerful, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry
Sentences with dreary as an adjective:
- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...