dreary

英['driəri]美['driəri]

a.
沉闷的

名　词：drea'riness

副　词：drea'rily

同：	[a.] dark, depressing, dingy, drab

dull，tedious，monotonous，dreary

这些形容词均表示“单调的、乏味的、厌烦的”之意。
dull指缺乏鲜明、吸引力或情趣而显得乏味、沉闷。
tedious侧重指文章、演讲、演出等冗长乏味或环境等单调、沉闷，缺乏活力，使感到不舒服。
monotonous指没有变化、重复单调的。
dreary侧重无趣味的，不活泼的事或思想状态。

What makes life dreary is the want of motive
没有目的,人生就黯淡无光收藏
You know in winter time one feels dreary quite alone in the best quarters
你知道，在冬天，一个人孤零零地住在最好的房子里也会感到无聊。收藏
A dreary rain was falling as Celia's taxi stopped at a dingy six-storey building on Thirty-seventh street
令人沉闷的细雨中，西莉亚坐的出租车在第五十七号街的一座破旧和肮脏的六层楼前停住了。收藏
The sky was dreary grey, like the asphalt beneath and the high granite walls
天空是一片惨淡的灰色，就象是下面的沥清路和那高大的花冈石墙壁一样。收藏
She is very much in need of excitement, but that dreary professor has none to offer
她所需要的那种刺激，不是‘灰色的教授’所能给与的！收藏

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causing dejection
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather
[同] dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, blue, sorry
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- her drab personality
- life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
- a series of dreary dinner parties
[同] drab, dreary

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