Adjective:
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;her drab personality
life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
a series of dreary dinner parties
causing dejection;a blue day
the dark days of the war
a week of rainy depressing weather
a disconsolate winter landscape
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a dark gloomy day
grim rainy weather
dull，tedious，monotonous，dreary这些形容词均表示“单调的、乏味的、厌烦的”之意。
dull指缺乏新鲜、吸引力或情趣而显得乏味、沉闷。
tedious侧重指文章、演讲、演出等冗长乏味或环境等单调、沉闷，缺乏活力，使感到不舒服。
monotonous指没有变化、重复单调的。
dreary侧重无趣味的，不活泼的事或思想状态。
近义词 dead死的black黑的dull呆滞的dark黑暗的grey灰色的grim严厉的blue蓝色的bleak萧瑟的drear阴沉的dingy肮脏的dismal阴沉的gloomy阴暗的somber微暗的solemn庄严的drab土褐色的doleful悲哀的sorry对不起的desolate荒凉的cheerless沉闷的colorless无色的routine例行公事miserable痛苦的monotonous单调的boring令人厌烦的lifeless无生命的tedious单调乏味的funereal适合葬礼的disconsolate忧郁的depressing令人沮丧的discouraging令人气馁的disheartening使人沮丧的unexciting不令人兴奋的…
用作形容词adj.
用作定语
～+ n.Addressing envelopes all the time is dreary work.老是往信封上写地址是件乏味的工作。
It was the dreariest job I had ever done.那是我所做过的最沉闷的工作。
I'm afraid it's been a dreary instead of a sunny autumn.恐怕已是阴郁的秋天，而不是阳光明媚的秋天了。
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用作形容词By day the monotonous hours wore on in the same heavy, hashed manner as on that firstdrearyafternoon.在白天，那沉闷的时刻，就和第一个凄凉的下午一样，忧郁寂寞地度过。
Its yellow ambiguous stripes anddrearysky are homologous, which makes the world harmonious.它背上灰黄斑驳的花纹，跟沉闷的天空遥遥相应，造成和谐的色调。
Hurstwood'sdrearystate made its beauty become more and more vivid.赫斯渥那令人沮丧的处境使得这些情景更加美丽迷人。 By the age of21, the typical American has spent10, 000 hours playing computer games, and endured a smaller but much drearier chunk of time listening to sermons about this sinful habit.
一个典型的美国人在其21岁的时候就已经花费了近10000小时用于玩电脑游戏，并坚持着花费相对短暂的时间去接受关于这种不良习惯的令人厌烦的说教。 yeeyan