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Dismal state
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dreariness
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Word definitions for dreariness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dreariness \Drear"i*ness\, n. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.] Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being dreary.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. extreme dullness [syn: boringness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English dreorinysse ; see dreary + -ness .
Usage examples of dreariness.
Sunday light he strode away, his spirit braced by the biting air, the Northern cold, the ragged bloody sky, which was somehow prophetic to him of glorious fulfilment, and at the same time depressed by the grey enormous weight of Sunday tedium and dreariness all around him.
At length the dreariness of an ended tale was about him, and he felt the inactivity to which he had been compelled all day no longer tolerable.
So young and so pretty, and caught in a life of dreariness and poverty.
But whereas most of the churches built during the past century are gimcrack affairs of brick veneered with imitation stone, of lattice work plastered to look like masonry, this vast essay in eccentric dreariness was realized, from crypt to capstone, in the solidest of granite.
The concert was one of those fragmentary drearinesses that people endure because they are fashionable.
Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition, when half-an-hour's silence and reflection had shown me the madness of my conduct, and the dreariness of my hated and hating position.