1 unattractive and having nothing of any interest, and therefore likely to make you sad:
We should all lead very dreary lives if we shut our politics away in a watertight compartment.
It's a dreary dull day.
His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'this blather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'dreary gruel' (the output of those linguists).
It should not be dreary.
All was hopelessly dreary and unclean.
By now architecture has turned its back on dreary practice to reinvent itself.
It is not just another volume in the long and often dreary history of usage guides.
So the building is not dreary and dull.
