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More dismal raise that is accepted by doctor
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drearier
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dreary \Drear"y\ (dr[=e]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. Drearier ; superl. Dreariest .] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre['o]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre['o]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross , Drear , Drizzle , Drowse .] Sorrowful; distressful. ...
Usage examples of drearier.
In the late autumn twilight it looked dreary in the extreme, drearier than Mark's comment that it was dull now the season had ended would have led me to believe.
It was a pleasant thing to see a carpet again, for if there is any thing drearier than the tomb-like, stone-paved parlors and bed-rooms of Europe and Asia, I do not know what it is.
The airfield, a treeless spread of steel netting sunk into mud and drifted over with snow, was a drearier place than Slote had imagined could exist on earth.
John's College stood under this mountain sun, bundled against the drearier winter of Maryland's humid tidewater climate, and looked around.
Arnot gave him a drearier sense of isolation than the memory of all else.
Dane moved in a definite light that defined him from his drearier surroundings.
It was as though the rebels had managed to kill the spirit of hedonism and turn the Wospan into a drearier, more furtive place.