drearsome

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Marked by dreariness; characteristically dreary.
    — It seemed to me illogical that, at some expense, the Government was going to keep me for eighteen months doing something for which I had no aptitude whatever. Even when I eventually settled to the dull and drearsome life in the Pay Office in Singapore, I had good shorthand speed and I could type, but these jobs were allotted to civilians while I tried to make sense of army accounting.

词形变化

more drearsome comparative most drearsome superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English drear
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Germanic *samaz
Proto-Germanic *-samaz
Proto-West Germanic *-sam
Old English -sum
Middle English -som
English -some
English drearsome
From drear + -some.
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