Drēar'y, a.

(89), a. [compar. DREARIER; superl. DREARIEST.] [A-S. dreor'ig, bloody, sorrowful, from dreór, blood, Icel. dreir. Cf. Ger. traurig, sad, sorrowful, trauer, sorrow, grief, trauern, to grieve, mourn.] Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. “Dreary shades.” Dryden. “The dreary ground.” Prior.

Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of property. Macaulay.