dreary

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a. 沉闷的

发音

AU /ˈdɹɪəɹi/
其它 /ˈdɹɛːɹi/
UK /ˈdɹɪəɹi/
US /ˈdɹɪɹi/
US /ˈdɹɪɚi/
US /ˈdɹiɹi/
SCOT /ˈdɹiɹɪ/
SCOT /ˈdɹiɹe/
NZ /ˈdɹiəɹi/

词形变化

drearies 复数 drearies drearier 比较级 drearier dreariest more dreary 比较级 dreariest 最高级 most dreary 最高级

别名

drerie

教材释义与例句

形容词

沉闷的，枯燥的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dreary person or thing.

    罕用

    In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

    It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.

    Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...

  2. 2.

    Grievous, dire; appalling.

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

sorry dark blue grim gloomy dismal drab dingy disconsolate drear

近义相关 4

dull depressing cheerless uncheerful

词源

From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).

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