Crossword clues for drearier
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. [Obs.] `` Dreary shrieks.''
--Spenser.-
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. `` Dreary shades.''
--Dryden. ``The dreary ground.''
--Prior.Full many a dreary anxious hour.
--Keble.Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dreary)
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 [syn: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, sorry]
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties" [syn: drab]
See dreary
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.