dreary

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
2. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.

Noun

A dreary person or thing.

Sinonieme

dismal

bleak

desolate

sad

☹️

nasty

horrible

gloomy

miserable

gaunt

somber

lonely

dull

ghastly

lonesome

drear

boring

drab

dark

forlorn

grisly

disconsolate

lone

melancholy

hideous

solitary

cheerless

dingy

sombre

depressing

uninteresting

shabby

lugubrious

doleful

sullen

grim

tedious

disagreeable

bare

sorry

stark

difficult

deserted

desert

🏜️

stodgy

repulsive

repellent

blue

repelling

mournful

humdrum

Vertalings

öde

maussade

trostlos

morne

somber

naargeestig

sombre

triste

☹️

melancólico

☹️

sombrio

entristecedor

horrible

acidus

nebuloso

☁️

amarus

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdɹɪɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: drery

Geërf van Old English: drēoriġ

Verwante met Nederlands: treurig

Verwante met Nederduits: trurig

Verwante met Duits: traurig

Verwante met Old Norse: dreyrigr

Verwante met Old English: drēor

Verwante met Old English: drysmian

In summary

From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).