dreary
d ri ree
- s lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
a series of dreary dinner parties - s causing dejection
- Younger kids will love the repetition of the verses in this tale of a pout-pout fish who spreads his "dreary-wearies" and is an absolute buzz-kill wherever he swims.
- As if to keep up interest in their dreary little war, Italians talked darkly of a pitched battle to come.
- Normally, that would be a safe assumption but we're learning not to assume anything as the charcoal-dreary economic winter approaches.