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Synonyms:
- glowering, flat, mournful, gruesome, heartbreaking, unappeasable, drudging, bleak, godforsaken, stupid, stark, downcast, abandoned, benighted, inexorable, depressed, gun metal, forgotten, ponderous, uninteresting, no-account, drear, wretched, dry, insipid, stern, uncheerful, grimy, sad, deserted, lamentable, risque, good-for-naught, saturnine, grizzled, prosaic, cloudy, glum, umbrageous, weary, slow, discouraged, wistful, jejune, dull, ashen, sulky, down in the mouth, gamey, jading, silhouetted, drab, uninhabited, tiring, depressive, puritanic, no-good, moody, sunless, ghastly, pathetic, heavy, deplorable, stodgy, glooming, lightless, gamy, tenebrous, mordant, dark-skinned, begrimed, sick, blue-blooded, contemplative, pitiful, unforgiving, joyless, dismal, forlorn, plaintive, dire, arid, wearying, numbing, raunchy, aristocratical, unrelenting, lonely, grubby, anguished, monotonous, smoky, distressing, light, juicy, salt-and-pepper, pensive, sinister, heartbroken, taupe, sullen, patrician, desolate, gloomy, disheartened, forbidding, unconsolable, sour, lead-gray, overcome, dusty, grisly, bluish, anxious, sorry, forsaken, chill, muddied, dark, spicy, stale, desert, inconsolable, tenebrific, profane, obscure, gloomful, wearisome, dim, tearful, mind-numbing, dapple-gray, blasphemous, gray, dour, good-for-nothing, lachrymose, mundane, bare, boring, old, battleship-gray, unexciting, cold, comfortless, teary, heartrending, grim, sooty, darkened, coloured, commonplace, iron-gray, no-count, inhospitable, melancholy, dingy, dirty, pedestrian, funereal, mole-gray, low-spirited, monochromatic, shaded, colorless, down, shady, pearly, mousy, meritless, humdrum, lugubrious, black, dispirited, tame, puritanical, despondent, excite, morbid, darkening, morose, non-white, elegiac, weariful, sober, ho-hum, disconsolate, relentless, swarthy, downhearted, lonesome, solemn, tedious, dolorous, gentle, blueish, tiresome, aristocratic, low, pearl-gray, blue, despairing, depressing, inky, muddy, neutral-tint, saddening, murky, somber, leaden, dreich, regretful, silvery, sepulchral, plutonian, cheerless, irksome, olive-drab, woeful, bad, happy, macabre, uninspired, shadowy, grungy, dejected, Cimmerian, barren, sombre, stuffy, miserable, dusky, naughty, racy, trivial
Examples:
- - The prospect was indeed dreary. - "Roughing it in the Bush", Susanna Moodie
- - No, nor half so dreary, for 'it is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all. - "Bad Hugh", Mary Jane Holmes
- - The railway people have reduced the hill on which it stood to a flat and dreary gravel waste. - "Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast", Samuel Adams Drake
Antonyms:
- breathtaking, galvanizing, enthralling, invigorating, attractive, stimulating, marvelous, hair-raising, encouraging, gripping, energizing, interesting, cordial, charming, exhilarating, beguiling, blithe, hopeful, cheery, jocund, jolly, exciting, blithesome, agreeable, electrifying, inspiring, enchanting, lighthearted, heartwarming, alluring, glad, intriguing, rip-roaring, riveting, attracting, mirthful, entertaining, bewitching, merry, enjoyable, astonishing, rousing, fascinating, suspenseful, captivating, lively, lightsome, cheerful, sunshiny, uplifting, involving, buoyant, pleasing, poignant, pleasurable, joyous, provocative, arresting, comforting, enlivening, entrancing, eye-opening, festive, pleasant, delightful, satisfying, astounding, awesome, amusing, heartening, welcome, happy, mesmerizing, stirring, wondrous, surprising, amazing, engaging, wonderful, sensational, tantalizing, friendly, cheering, spellbinding, optimistic, bright, animating, spectacular, moving, joyful, engrossing, thrilling, diverting, fabulous, absorbing, touching
