Adjective:

ਉਦਾਸ, ਨਿਰਾਨੰਦ,

drear's Usage Examples:

"he was left us works of real merit, which stand out like oases in the dreary desert of theological writings".

grave I wander drear, Noon, night, and morning early, With breaking heart whene"er I hear The wind that shakes the barley! The song has been covered by many.

NME described it as a dreary thing indeed, whereas Allmusic described it as a self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience.

According to Wendy Michener's review in The Globe and Mail, after the striptease scene we are plunged back into the mundane, not to say inane world, of the spy thriller with a dreary overlay of futuristic science-fiction and it just lies there, with all its psychedelic plastic settings.

Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter called it a dreary, lachrymose and incredibly poky tear-jerker but conceded it had a built in audience among those who put the book on the bestseller list.

Emmanuel, and Magdalene,     And St Catharine"s, and St John"s, Are the dreariest of places,     And full of dons.

season: males turn into a “steely-blue” color, while the females become a drearier, yellowish-brown color.

Uninspiring prototypes [that] have spun off sequels, which have birthed still drearier successors—a Barthesian chain of replication unfolding into ever-declining.

This is rare; for, generally speaking, nothing makes drearier reading than the conscious juvenility of adults.

loch ("fjord" or "lake"), nicht ("night"), dochter ("daughter"), dreich ("dreary"), etc.

FragmentsUntitled, A grey sky arched over the dreary waste.

imaginary abilities as a composer, for in his dreary and aimless musical outpourings one can nevertheless see a certain schooling and theoretical knowledge.

It is unredeemed, dreary, boring, gloomy dreck unilluminated by even the slightest fugitive moment of inspiration or ambition," though.

Synonyms:

disconsolate, dingy, dark, sorry, grim, drab, blue, uncheerful, dreary, dismal, gloomy, depressing, cheerless,

Antonyms:

elated, happy, uncheerfulness, joyous, cheerful,