dreary英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A dreary person or thing. rare

— In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully.

形容词 adj.

Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

— It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
Grievous, dire; appalling. obsolete

词形变化

drearier comparative more dreary comparative dreariest superlative most dreary superlative drearies plural

词汇关系

衍生词

drear drearihead drearihood drearily dreariment dreariness drearisome

词源

词源 1

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”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).

词源 2

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”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).