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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

boring and plain, or making someone gloomy;

e.g. She was tired of the dreary weather.

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Similar Words

Arid

Black

Blah

Bleak

Boring

Careworn

Cheerless

Chill

Cimmerian

Cloudy

Cold

Colorless

Cookie-cutter

Dark

Depressing

Depressive

Desolate

Dire

Disconsolate

Dismal

Drab

Dry

Dullish

Dusty

Elegiac

Flat

Forlorn

Funereal

Gloomy

Glum

Godforsaken

Gray

Grey

Heartbreaking

Heartrending

Heavy

Ho-hum

Howling

Humdrum

Jejune

Leaden

Lonely

Lonesome

Longsome

Lugubrious

Melancholy

Mind-numbing

Miserable

Monochromatic

Monotonous

Morbid

Morose

Mournful

Murky

Numbing

Pathetic

Pedantic

Pedestrian

Pleasureless

Plutonian

Ponderous

Prosy

Sad

Saturnine

Sepulchral

Solemn

Somber

Sorry

Stale

Stodgy

Stuffy

Suicidal

Sullen

Sunless

Tame

Tearful

Teary

Tedious

Tenebrific

Tenebrous

Tiresome

Tiring

Undramatic

Uneventful

Unexciting

Unimaginative

Uninspired

Uninspiring

Uninteresting

Unnewsworthy

Unpropitious

Unrewarding

Unsensational

Unspectacular

Unsurprising

Vapid

Wearisome

Weary

Wretched

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Opposite Words

Absorbing

Agreeable

Alluring

Amazing

Amusing

Appealing

Arresting

Astonishing

Astounding

Attractive

Awesome

Beamish

Beckoning

Beguiling

Bewitching

Blessed

Blithe

Breathtaking

Bullish

Buoyant

Captivating

Charged

Charismatic

Charming

Cheery

Congenial

Consuming

Darling

Delectable

Delicious

Delightful

Diverting

Dreamy

Dulcet

Electric

Elfin

Enchanting

Encouraging

Engaging

Engrossing

Entertaining

Exciting

Exhilarating

Fabulous

Fair

Fascinating

Felicific

Felicitous

Festive

Fetching

Fun

Galvanic

Gay

Glad

Glamorous

Gleeful

Golden

Good

Grateful

Gratifying

Gripping

Hair-raising

Heart-stopping

Heartwarming

Heavenly

High-voltage

Hopeful

Inspiring

Interesting

Intriguing

Invigorating

Jocose

Jocular

Jocund

Jolly

Jovial

Joyful

Joyous

Kicky

Lighthearted

Likely

Luscious

Magnetic

Marvelous

Merry

Mind-bending

Mind-blowing

Mindboggling

Moving

Optimistic

Overjoyed

Palatable

Personable

Pert

Piquant

Pleasant

Pleasing

Pleasurable

Poignant

Pretty

Promising

Propitious

Provocative

Pungent

Rip-roaring

Riveting

Roseate

Rousing

Salty

Satisfying

Savory

Seductive

Sensational

Spectacular

Spellbinding

Stimulating

Stirring

Sunny

Surprising

Sweet

Tantalizing

Tasty

Tempting

Thrilling

Titillating

Touching

Unthreatening

Upbeat

Welcome

Wonderful

Wondrous

Zesty

Zingy

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Related Words

Affecting

Agonized

Anguished

Annoying

Aseptic

Baleful

Banal

Barren

Bearish

Beige

Bitter

Blah

Blank

Blue

Bothersome

Brokenhearted

Cloudy

Cobwebby

Colorless

Common

Commonplace

Crestfallen

Cumbersome

Debilitating

Dejected

Deplorable

Depressed

Despairing

Desperate

Despondent

Dim

Dire

Direful

Disconsolate

Dismaying

Distressful

Disturbing

Doleful

Dolorous

Doomy

Dour

Down

Downbeat

Downcast

Downhearted

Drab

Dull

Dullish

Earthbound

Faceless

Fatiguing

Foreboding

Forlorn

Funeral

Gloomy

Glum

Gray

Grey

Grievous

Grim

Hack

Hackney

Hackneyed

Hangdog

Hazy

Heartbroken

Heartsick

Hopeless

Ill-boding

Inanimate

Inauspicious

Inconsolable

Irksome

Irritating

Lamentable

Longsome

Low

Low-spirited

Lowering

Lugubrious

Melancholic

Melancholy

Menacing

Minatory

Miserable

Moth-eaten

Mournful

Moving

Musty

Namby-pamby

Negative

Neutral

Noncommittal

Nondescript

Obligatory

Ominous

Oppressive

Ordinary

Overcast

Pallid

Pedantic

Perturbing

Pessimistic

Plaintive

Plangent

Pleasureless

Poignant

Poky

Portentous

Prosaic

Prosy

Regretful

Rueful

Sad

Shopworn

Sinister

Soggy

Sorrowful

Sorry

Spiritless

Stale

Stereotyped

Sterile

Tepid

The

Threadbare

Threatening

Timeworn

Tired

Touching

Trite

Undramatic

Uneventful

Unexceptional

Unexciting

Unfortunate

Unhappy

Unimaginative

Uninspiring

Unnewsworthy

Unrewarding

Unsensational

Unspectacular

Unsurprising

Upsetting

Vanilla

Weeping

Well-worn

Wishy-washy

Woebegone

Woeful

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