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- Old English dreorig "sad, sorrowful," originally "cruel, bloody, blood-stained," from dreor "gore, blood," from (ge)dreosan (past participle droren) "fall, decline, fail," used of rain, snow, dew, fruit, and the slain, from Proto-Germanic *dreuzas (source also of Old Norse dreyrigr "gory, bloody," and more remotely, Old Saxon drorag, Middle High German troric "bloody;" German traurig "sad, sorrowful"), from PIE root *dhreu- "to fall, flow, drip, droop" (see drip (v.)).
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Oct 10, 2018 · dreary. (adj.) Old English dreorig "sad, sorrowful," originally "cruel, bloody, blood-stained," from dreor "gore, blood," from (ge)dreosan (past participle droren) "fall, decline, fail," used of rain, snow, dew, fruit, and the slain, from Proto-Germanic *dreuzas (source also of Old Norse dreyrigr "gory, bloody," and more remotely, Old Saxon ...
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Um 1300, drippen, "in Tropfen fallen; in Tropfen fallen...
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dreary 뜻: 쓸쓸한; 올드 잉글리시 dreorig "슬픈, 슬퍼하는," 원래 "잔인한, 피투성이인,"...
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The word has lost its original sense and the notion of...
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OED's earliest evidence for dreary is from 1925, in the writing of Noël Coward, playwright and composer. It is also recorded as an adjective from the Old English period (pre-1150). dreary is formed within English, by conversion.
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From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Rela...
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɪɹi/(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɪəɹi/Rhymes: -ɪəɹi, -ɪɹidreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary) 1. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. 1.1. It had rained for three days straight, and the drearyweather dragged the townspeople's spirits down. 1.2. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... 1.1. 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter V, in Frankenstein...
British English. /ˈdrɪəri/ DREER-ee. U.S. English. /ˈdrɪri/ DREER-ee. See pronunciation. Where does the adjective dreary come from? Earliest known use. Old English. The earliest known use of the adjective dreary is in the Old English period (pre-1150). dreary is a word inherited from Germanic. See etymology. Nearby entries.
(Definition of dreary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) dreary | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˈdrɪər·i / Add to word list. unattractive and having nothing of any interest, and therefore likely to make you sad: It was a gray, dreary day, with periods of rain.
Dreary comes from an Old English word that originally meant "gory or bloody." In time, "dreary" came to mean "horrid." By the 1600s, its meaning had softened to "gloomy."
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