Synonyms for drearisome
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
dark, grey UK, gray US, grim, bleak, gloomy, dismal, dreary, somber US, sombre UK, saturnine, spiritless, dull, stern, depressing, moody, dire, melancholy, desolate, forlorn, sullen, glum, morose, leaden, joyless, sunless, funereal, disconsolate, lugubrious, doleful, cheerless, drear, uncheerful, solemn dated, triste rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Characterised or marked by dreariness.
Example sentences
- grey My friend disappeared like a grey mule in the fog.
- bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
- dreary I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
- somber We heard somber hollow sounds from the cave.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1, grey1, gray1, dull1, grim1, dire1, glum1
- 5 letters
- stern1, moody2, bleak1, drear
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, solemn2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, sombre, sullen2, morose2, leaden2, triste
- 7 letters
- forlorn2, joyless, sunless, doleful2
- 8 letters
- desolate3, funereal
- 9 letters
- cheerless, saturnine
- 10 letters
- depressing3, melancholy4, lugubrious4, spiritless, uncheerful
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moody2 = 2 syllables).