All drear synonyms

adj drear

• grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• lonely — affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
• harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• somber — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
• dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
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• dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• cheerless — Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
• discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
• hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
• hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
• joyless — without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
• comfortless — to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
• disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
• bromidic — ordinary; dull
• bummer — If you say that something is a bummer, you mean that it is unpleasant or annoying.
• cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
• commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
• drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
• humdrum — lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
• interminable — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
• irksome — annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.
• monotonous — lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
• moth-eaten — eaten or damaged by or as if by the larvae of moths.
• mundane — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
• nothing — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
• platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
• plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
• prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
• repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
• routine — subroutine
• spiritless — without spirit.
• stereotyped — reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
• stodgy — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
• stupid — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
• tedious — event: dull
• tiresome — causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job.
• tiring — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
• unexciting — producing excitement; stirring; thrilling: an exciting account of his trip to Tibet.
• uninteresting — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
• vapid — lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
• weary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.