From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdrearydrear‧y /ˈdrɪəri $ ˈdrɪri/ (also drear /drɪə $ drɪr/ literary) adjectiveBORINGSAD/UNHAPPYdull and making you feel sad or boredthe same dreary routinea dreary winter’s day —dreariness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusdreary• I was living in a drearyapartment in a run-down part of town.• Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find.• It was all dreary, dreary, just as he had anticipated.• There was George - dull, dreary George - sprawledfull-length on the settee, his nose deep in a book as usual.• She might under some circumstances be submissive, like these dreary girls you see padding along in the moccasintracks of hippies.• It can be the drearyhorror of ribbon development.• This room is so dreary. How can we brighten it up?• They kissed her and all had another glass of fizz before Charles started the drearyjourney back to Willesden on the Underground.• Laurie gazed out over a drearylandscape of factories and parking lots.• In the dreary new settlements revivalist contests also provided entertainment.• The sight of her filled Liz with a subdued and drearypanic.• drearyweatherOrigindrearyOld Englishdreorig"bloody, sad"