What are the antonyms for DREARY?
- enlivening, surprising, bright, invigorating, astonishing, provocative, nice, spectacular, light, joyful, exciting, cordial, sunshiny, optimistic, hopeful, colorful, comforting, sensational, eventful, lively, energizing, astounding, suspenseful, friendly, amazing, rousing, happy, awesome, marvelous, wonderful, cheerful, wondrous, lighthearted, beguiling, touching, buoyant, joyous, spellbinding, interesting, uplifting, fabulous, eye-opening, pleasant, heartwarming, glad, encouraging, animating, tantalizing, clear, lightsome, mesmerizing, moving.
Synonyms for DREARY
- lightless,
- Unpassioned,
- grizzled,
- shopworn,
- colorless,
- clinical,
- Dirgeful,
- leaden,
- plodding,
- off-putting,
- battleship-gray,
- not clear,
- singsong,
- moody,
- broody,
- unpopulated,
- downcast,
- somber,
- uninspiring,
- despairing,
- longwinded,
- dapple-gray,
- weatherbeaten,
- unexciting,
- mournful,
- dispirited,
- shot down,
- barren,
- labored,
- forlorn,
- bleak,
- bare,
- damp,
- dark,
- lonesome,
- stark,
- trivial,
- tedious,
- monotonous,
- long-faced,
- disheartened,
- dusky,
- dejected,
- yawn producing,
- blue,
- blah,
- in low spirits,
- down-in-the-mouth,
- banausic,
- samely,
- routine,
- dismal,
- toneless,
- wistful,
- down and out,
- joyless,
- puts one to sleep,
- dun,
- depressing,
- stocker,
- unenjoyable,
- jerkwater,
- funereal,
- tired,
- Stultifying,
- like a bag of bones,
- self-important,
- lackluster,
- oft-repeated,
- murky,
- darkened,
- windy,
- soulless,
- subfuse,
- prosaic,
- draggy,
- torn up,
- overcast,
- shadowy,
- gun metal,
- obscure,
- stodgy,
- soporific,
- sterile,
- white bread,
- downhearted,
- crepuscular,
- serviceable,
- uninspired,
- smoky,
- down in mouth,
- pearly,
- sing-song,
- humorless,
- down in dumps,
- weary,
- bland,
- cloudy,
- middle-aged,
- depressed,
- sullen,
- grim,
- repetitive,
- dull,
- comfortless,
- desert,
- umbrageous,
- inert,
- formulaic,
- neutral-tint,
- humdrum,
- heartbroken,
- dry,
- windswept,
- mousy,
- pearl-gray,
- wornout,
- Drearisome,
- big yawn,
- tenebrific,
- overclouded,
- sombrer,
- hohum,
- nowhere,
- prim and proper,
- let-down,
- gaunt,
- dolorous,
- fainter,
- sorry,
- unlit,
- silhouetted,
- run of the mill,
- lead-gray,
- darkish,
- contemplative,
- abandoned,
- lifeless,
- acheronian,
- truistic,
- well-worn,
- dragger,
- unexceptionable,
- anguished,
- bummed out,
- pallid,
- iron-gray,
- wearisome,
- wintry,
- poorly lit,
- discouraged,
- sepulchral,
- morose,
- unvaried,
- undraped,
- peaky,
- lachrymose,
- despondent,
- drab,
- mole-gray,
- unappealing,
- characterless,
- unmemorable,
- anxious,
- stygian,
- inhospitable,
- whitebread,
- plaintive,
- ashen,
- cast down,
- mirthless,
- forsaken,
- sooty,
- depressive,
- worthy,
- Subfuscous,
- miserable,
- deserted,
- dusk,
- tiresome,
- ritual,
- ho hum,
- silvery,
- skin and bones,
- not fair,
- scraggiest,
- drear,
- disconsolate,
- unilluminated,
- earthbound,
- flat as pancake,
- woebegone,
- unanimated,
- unpromising,
- repetitious,
- gray,
- shaded,
- old-hat,
- insipid,
- uninteresting,
- in blue funk,
- in the pits,
- doleful,
- raw,
- deforested,
- gloomy,
- scraggy,
- usual thing,
- stuffy,
- dingy,
- mundane,
- dour,
- sorrowful,
- swarthy,
- Dolent,
- dirgelike,
- discouraging,
- Weariful,
- uncheerful,
- puts to sleep,
- opaque,
- inelaborate,
- dull as dishwater,
- banal,
- shady,
- pedestrian,
- acherontic,
- broken down,
- overcome,
- sad,
- down in the dumps,
- derivative,
- featureless,
- black,
- salt-and-pepper,
- commonplace,
- deadly,
- lonely,
- in pain,
- inky,
- uninhabited,
- solitary,
- dispiriting,
- readable,
- chapfallen,
- dead,
- out of date,
- impassive,
- institutional,
- glum,
- oppressive,
- Irksome,
- taupe,
- unbeauteous,
- Nubilous,
- heart-rending,
- stupefying,
- melancholy,
- lusterless,
- forgettable,
- white-bread,
- desolate,
- excite,
- sombre,
- anodyne,
- puffy,
- uneventful,
- out-of-date,
- woeful,
- griefstricken,
- prosy,
- boring,
- no nonsense,
- cheerless,
- garden variety,
- painful,
- mater,
- hackneyed,
- clouded over,
- pensive,
- laborious,
- ho-hum,
- Mopish,
- wretched,
- unimaginative,
- forgotten,
- have the blahs,
- waste,
- matter of fact,
- dim,
- torn-up.
Usage Examples for DREARY
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Go, my friend, may better fortune than mine attend thee, and bring thee a happier issue than that which I await in dread in this dreary solitude." - "The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Oh, how weary and sore were her little feet, and everything round looked so cold and dreary. - "Stories from Hans Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen
