Dreary

a.	1.	Sorrowful; distressful.
	2.	Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. Full many a dreary anxious hour. - Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. - Macaulay.

Adj.	1.	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 Synonyms: dismal, drear, gloomy, drab, dingy, sorry
	2.	dreary - 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" Synonyms: drab

Quaker-colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding, boring, broken-record, canescent, characterless, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deplorable, depressed, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, discomforting, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray, downcast, drab, draggy, drear, drearisome, dry, dryasdust, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, evil, evil-starred, fade, fateful, flat, foreboding, forlorn, funebrial, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, glum, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, harping, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inane, inauspicious, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, iron-gray, jejune, jog-trot, joyless, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, long-winded, low-spirited, lowering, melancholy, menacing, miserable, monotone, monotonous, morose, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving, of evil portent, ominous, oppressive, ordinary, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, portending, portentous, prolix, prosaic, regrettable, rueful, run-of-the-mill, saddening, saturnine, sharp, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singsong, sinister, slate-colored, slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, threatening, tiresome, tiring, touching, treadmill, triste, uncomfortable, uneventful, unexciting, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, uninteresting, unlively, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, wearying, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched

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