- Types Of Speech
- You can use dreary as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Dreary
- A 2 syllables adjective satellite and 6 letters with the letters a, d, e, r, and y, 4 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters ea. Dreary starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, dr, dre, drea, drear, and the ending characters are y, ry, ary, eary, reary, ..
- Definition
- Depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Dreary is set as a grade five word that starts with d, ends with y, 2 syllables, 2 vowels and 6 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is dreary a scrabble word? A 10 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Dreary in Pig Latin is said as "earydray or earydrway".
- Unigram
- d | r | e | a | r | y
- Bigram
- dr | re | ea | ar | ry
- Trigram
- dre | rea | ear | ary
- Quadrigram
- drea | rear | eary
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- depressing in character or appearance;
"drove through dingy streets";
"the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens;
"drab old buildings";
"a dreary mining town";
"gloomy tenements";
"sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams - 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"
Synonym | Definition |
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Abject | showing humiliation or submissiveness "an abject apology" |
Achromatic | having no hue |
Achromic | having no color |
Achromous | having no color |
Acier | |
Adulteress | a woman adulterer |
Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
Affecting | arousing affect "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene" "poignant grief cannot endure forever" "his gratitude was simple and touching" |
Afflictive | causing misery or pain or distress "it was a sore trial to him" "the painful process of growing up" |
Ailment | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease a cause for complaining |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dreary
Anagram | Definition |
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Yarder | (used only in combinations) the height of length of something in yards "the golfer hit a 300-yarder to the green" |
Dreary | depressing in character or appearance "drove through dingy streets" "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens "drab old buildings" "a dreary mining town" "gloomy tenements" "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |
View English words with the unique letters used in dreary. Words With The Letters Adery
Similar Word | Definition |
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Cheerless | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
Uncheerful | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
Title | Type | Description |
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Negative Feelings | Describe dreary | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Deary (5 letters) | 9 | 8 | ready | ||
Radyera (7 letters) | 11 +1 | 10 +1 | radyera | ||
Yarder (6 letters) | 10 | 9 | yarder | ||
Ready (5 letters) | 9 | 8 | ready | ||
Readya (6 letters) | 10 | 9 | aadery | ||
Dreary (6 letters) | 10 | 9 | yarder | ||
Arrayed (7 letters) | 11 +1 | 10 +1 | radyera | ||
Rayed (5 letters) | 9 | 8 | ready |
Dreary Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters