Found 2 items, similar to Dreariest.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dreariest dreary adj 1: 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] 2: 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] [also: dreariest, drearier] dreariest See dreary
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dreariest 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.] 1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] “ Dreary shrieks.” --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. “ Dreary shades.” --Dryden. “The dreary ground.” --Prior. [1913 Webster] Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble. [1913 Webster] Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]