dreary (adj.)
- affecting
- afflictive
- apocalyptic
- arid
- ashen
- ashy
- bad
- baleful
- banausic
- baneful
- barren
- bitter
- black
- blank
- bleak
- bloodless
- blue
- boding
- boring
- canescent
- characterless
- cheerless
- cold
- colorless
- comfortless
- dappled
- dark
- dead
- deplorable
- depressed
- depressing
- depressive
- dim
- dingy
- dire
- dismal
- dismaying
- dispiriting
- distressful
- distressing
- doleful
- dolorous
- downcast
- drab
- drear
- dry
- dull
- dusty
- effete
- elephantine
- empty
- etiolated
- everlasting
- evil
- fateful
- flat
- foreboding
- forlorn
- funereal
- glaucous
- gloomy
- glum
- grave
- gray
- gray-black
- gray-brown
- gray-green
- gray-white
- grayish
- grievous
- grim
- grizzled
- grizzly
- heavy
- ho-hum
- hollow
- humdrum
- ill
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- inane
- inauspicious
- insipid
- invariable
- iron-gray
- jejune
- joyless
- lamentable
- leaden
- lifeless
- livid
- long-winded
- low-spirited
- lowering
- melancholy
- menacing
- miserable
- monotone
- monotonous
- morose
- mournful
- mouse-colored
- mousy
- moving
- ominous
- oppressive
- ordinary
- painful
- pale
- pallid
- pathetic
- pearly
- pedestrian
- piteous
- pitiable
- plodding
- poignant
- pointless
- poky
- ponderous
- portentous
- prolix
- prosaic
- regrettable
- rueful
- run-of-the-mill
- sad
- saturnine
- sharp
- silver
- silver-gray
- silvery
- singsong
- sinister
- slaty
- slow
- smoky
- sober
- solemn
- somber
- sore
- sorrowful
- spiritless
- steely
- sterile
- stiff
- stodgy
- stuffy
- superficial
- tasteless
- taupe
- tedious
- threatening
- tiresome
- tiring
- touching
- uncomfortable
- uneventful
- unexciting
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- uninteresting
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- untoward
- unvarying
- vapid
- wearisome
- weary
- wearying
- woebegone
- woeful
- wooden
- wretched
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,—
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder:
A dreary sea now flows between.
