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…
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～+ 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。 As a result, many economists now ignore one of the discipline's dreariest maxims: de gustibus non est disputandum, one does not quarrel over tastes.
结果，现在许多经济学家忽视了这一学科最枯燥的格言之一：口味难言好坏，没有人会为了口味不同而争吵。 ecocn
It was the dreariest job I had ever done.
那是我所做过的最沉闷的工作。 hjenglish
They caught a glimpse of one of the loneliest and dreariest spots in the world.
他们看见了一个世界上最孤独和最沉闷的地方。 tianya