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dreary

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dreary/ˈdrɪəri/

▶adjective (drearier, dreariest) dull, bleak, and depressing.

– derivatives
drearily adverb,
dreariness noun.

– origin OE drēorig ‘gory, cruel, melancholy’, from drēor ‘gore’, of Gmc origin; rel. to drowsy, and prob. to drizzle.

'dreary' also found in these Oxford entries:

bleak - dismal - drack - draggy - drear - dreich - drizzle - drowsy - dump

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