dreary
dreary is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sorrowful; distressful. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Sorrowful; distressful.
- superlative. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
- adjective. causing dejection
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
- adjective. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
"her drab personality"
"life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
Synonyms
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dreary:
Common word forms
drearier, drearies, drearily, dreariest
Words from these letters
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