DREARILY, DREARINESS, DREARY
ADJECTIVES
► DARNFUL dreary, gloomy, mournful → 1916 Amer. dial.
► DAWLSOME dreary, dull, miserable; nauseating → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► DECEMBERLY resembling December in dreariness and darkness → 1765 obs.
► DERN dreary, dismal, lonely, solitary → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DOLLY dreary; dismal; dull and lonely → E16 obs.
► DOWIE dreary; dismal; dull and lonely → E16 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DRACK dreary, dull; awful; unpleasant → 1944 Aust. sl.
► DREARY AS BATSHIT very dreary, dull, uninteresting → 1964 Aust. sl.
► DULLY dreary, doleful, gloomy → a1513 Sc. poetic usage, obs.
► DULSOME dreary, dismal → 1613 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ELENGE ► ELLINGE dreary; remote, lonely, solitary; miserable → c1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GOUSTY desolate, dreary, gloomy; ghastly, supernatural, unearthly → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HELANGE dreary; solitary, lonely; weird, uncanny → 1691 Eng. dial.
► NOWHERE dreary; insignificant → 1940 sl.
► PO-JO dreary; drab; poverty-stricken → 1950 Amer. dial.
► UNCOUTHY dreary, causing fear → 1768 Sc. obs.
► UNKED ► UNKID dreary, lonely, desolate; said of a place → 1777 Eng. dial.
► UNKY dreary, lonely, desolate; said of a place → 1777 Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► EERIELY drearily, dismally, in a foreboding way → 1819 Sc.
► ELENGELY drearily, miserably, dejectedly, gloomily → 1377 obs.
NOUNS
► ELENGENESSE dreariness, loneliness, misery, gloom → c1320 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DREAR a dreary person → 1958 sl.
► DREARY a dreary person → 1925
► FACE-ACHE a dreary-looking person → 1937 sl.