All drearisome synonyms

adjective drearisome

• depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
• unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• austere — If you describe something as austere, you approve of its plain and simple appearance.
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
• blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
• comfortless — to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
• dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
• dejected — If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
• dejecting — (rare) present participle of deject.
• depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
• desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
• despondent — If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome.
• disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
• dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
• dispiriting — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
• dolorous — full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
• drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
• draggy — moving or developing very slowly.
• dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• forlorn — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
• funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
• jarring — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
• joyless — without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
• mopey — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
• oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
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• somber — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
• sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
• sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
• tenebrific — producing darkness.
• uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
• wintry — of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
• woebegone — beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.
• woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.