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21Dreary Isthmus — (78°12′S 165°17′E / 78.2°S 165.283°E / 78.2; 165.283) is a low, narrow neck of land, or isthmus, that joins the base of Brown Peninsula and the low morainal area north of Mount Discovery, Scott Coas …
22dreary — adjective (drearier; est) Etymology: Middle English drery, from Old English drēorig sad, bloody, from drēor gore; akin to Old High German trūrēn to be sad, Gothic driusan to fall Date: before 12th century 1. feeling, displaying, or reflecting… …
23dreary — drearily, adv. dreariness, n. drearisome, adj. /drear ee/, adj., drearier, dreariest. 1. causing sadness or gloom. 2. dull; boring. 3. sorrowful; sad. [bef. 900; ME drery, OE dreorig gory, cruel, sad, equiv. to dreor gore + ig Y1; aki …
24dreary — adjective Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. They gan to fight returne, increasing more / Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce, / With heaped strokes more hugely, then before, / That with their drerie wounds and bloudy gore / They both …
25dreary — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding, boring, broken record,… …
26dreary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. drear, cheerless, gloomy, somber; depressing, lonely, wearisome, tedious. See dejection, weariness.Ant., bright, cheerful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gloomy, cheerless, bleak, drab; see dark 1 ,… …
27dreary — adj. RG. 351; [drury], Alys. 4389. Cf. Laȝ. ii. 184 …
28dreary — adjective (drearier, dreariest) dull, bleak, and depressing. Derivatives drearily adverb dreariness noun Origin OE drēorig gory, cruel, melancholy , from drēor gore , of Gmc origin; related to drowsy, and prob. to drizzle …
29dreary — a. 1. Gloomy, dismal, dark, drear, lonely, solitary, lonesome, cheerless, comfortless, chilling, depressing. 2. Monotonous, dull, tiresome, uninteresting …
30dreary — adj 1. gloomy, cloudy, dismal, dim, bleak, Literary. drear, Both Scot, and North. Eng. dowie, dree; gray, shadowy, dark, obscure; uninviting, cheerless, joyless. 2. dull, flat, drab, arid, dry, dry as dust, uninteresting, vapid, lifeless, Sl.… …
