See dreary on Wiktionary
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"text": "It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.",
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"text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...",
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"ref": "1818, Mary Shelley, chapter V, in Frankenstein, volume 1:",
"text": "It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.",
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"Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless."
],
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"word": "bleak"
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"sense": "drab",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "drab",
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"sense": "drab",
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"sense": "drab",
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"sense": "drab",
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"word": "آجی"
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"sense": "drab",
"word": "melancólico"
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"roman": "tosklívyj",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling."
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"en:Appearance"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "drear"
},
{
"word": "drearihead"
},
{
"word": "drearihood"
},
{
"word": "drearily"
},
{
"word": "dreariment"
},
{
"word": "dreariness"
},
{
"word": "drearisome"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "drery"
},
"expansion": "Middle English drery",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "drēoriġ",
"t": "sad"
},
"expansion": "Old English drēoriġ (“sad”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*dreuzagaz",
"t": "bloody"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dʰrews-",
"t": "to break, break off, crumble"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "drear",
"3": "-y",
"id2": "adjectival"
},
"expansion": "drear + -y",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "treurig",
"t": "sad, gloomy"
},
"expansion": "Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "trurig",
"t": "sad"
},
"expansion": "Low German trurig (“sad”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "traurig",
"t": "sad, sorrowful, mournful"
},
"expansion": "German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "dreyrigr",
"t": "bloody"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "drēor",
"t": "blood, falling blood"
},
"expansion": "Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "drysmian",
"t": "to become gloomy"
},
"expansion": "Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "drearier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "more dreary",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "dreariest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "most dreary",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er",
"2": "more"
},
"expansion": "dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1818, Mary Shelley, chapter V, in Frankenstein, volume 1:",
"text": "It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless."
],
"links": [
[
"Drab",
"drab"
],
[
"dark",
"dark"
],
[
"colorless",
"colorless"
],
[
"cheerless",
"cheerless"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bleak"
},
{
"word": "gloomy"
},
{
"word": "cheerless"
},
{
"word": "dim"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Grievous, dire; appalling."
],
"links": [
[
"Grievous",
"grievous"
],
[
"dire",
"dire"
],
[
"appalling",
"appalling"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪəɹi/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪɹi/",
"note": "General American, mirror–nearer merger"
},
{
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪɚi/",
"note": "without the mirror–nearer merger",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹi/",
"note": "without the mirror–nearer merger",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹɪ/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹe/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiəɹi/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɛːɹi/",
"note": "East Anglia, cheer–chair merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪəɹi"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎžen",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "тъжен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mračen",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "мрачен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "šedivý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "pochmurný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "chmurný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "ponurý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "depresivní"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "bleek"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "lusteloos"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "malgaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "ankea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "surkea"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drab",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "terne"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drab",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "insipide"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drab",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "maussade"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "öde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "trostlos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "trüb"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "freudlos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "komor"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "rideg"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "borús"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "borongós"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "bús"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "búskomor"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "bánatos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "búbánatos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "barátságtalan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "örömtelen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "scenery",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "sivár"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "kietlen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "kopár"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "drungalegur"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "dearóil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "drab",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melanconico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "drab",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "malinconico"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kouryoutoshita",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "荒涼とした"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wabishii",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "わびしい"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "takeo"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "drery"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "dregh"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "dyster"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "dyster"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "wynleas"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"note": "of sounds",
"roman": "acı",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "آجی"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "melancólico"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "tern"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "insipid"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "mosad"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "trist"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "melancolic"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mráčnyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "мра́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tosklívyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "тоскли́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pečálʹnyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "печа́льный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "grústnyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "гру́стный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezotrádnyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "безотра́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mútornyj",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "му́торный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "aburrido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "triste"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "trist"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "drab",
"word": "dyster"
}
],
"word": "dreary"
}
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