Definition of Drearily

1. Adverb. In a cheerless manner. "In August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future"

Exact synonyms: Dismally
Partainyms: Dismal, Dreary

Definition of Drearily

1. adv. Gloomily; dismally.

Definition of Drearily

1. Adverb. In a dreary manner ¹

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Definition of Drearily

1. dreary [adv] - See also: dreary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drearily

dreamwrapt
dreamy state
dreap
dreaped
dreaping
dreaps
drear
dreare
drearer
dreares
drearest
drearier
drearies
dreariest
drearily (current term)
dreariment
dreariness
drearinesses
drearing
drearings
drearisome
drears
drearsome
dreary
dreave
dreckier
dreckiest
dreckley

Literary usage of Drearily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"HOW EERILY, HOW drearily. How eerily, how drearily, how wearily to pine, When my love's in a foreign land, ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"THE rain comes plashing in my face ; The whispering wind blows by grimace ; The clouds reel on with quickening pace, ' As the rain sobs drearily. ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"imaginative, fancy pictures, on which humanity starves and cannot live; not a mesa of that manna I drearily eulogized a while ago, which indeed at first ..."

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