dreary

dreary is an   Adverb

Definition:

[1] Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.

[2] Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior. 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.

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