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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin

Meaning of "dreariest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DREARIEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREARIEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dreariest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREARIEST

dreaming
dreamingly
dreamland
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamlessness
dreamlike
dreamt
Dreamtime
dreamy
drear
drearier
drearihead
drearihood
drearily
dreariment
dreariness
drearing
drearisome
dreary

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREARIEST

angriest
archpriest
at the earliest
chariest
cheeriest
chief priest
driest
eeriest
furriest
goriest
hairiest
high priest
hungriest
merriest
parish priest
priest
scariest
shimmeriest
sorriest
spriest
veriest

Synonyms and antonyms of dreariest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DREARIEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dreariest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dreariest

Translation of «dreariest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREARIEST

Find out the translation of dreariest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dreariest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dreariest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dreariest
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dreariest
570 millions of speakers

English

dreariest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dreariest
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dreariest
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dreariest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dreariest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dreariest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

morne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dreariest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dreariest
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dreariest
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dreariest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dreariest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dreariest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dreariest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Dreariest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dreariest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

più triste
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dreariest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dreariest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dreariest
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ζοφερότερες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dreariest
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dreariest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dreariest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dreariest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREARIEST»

The term «dreariest» is normally little used and occupies the 133.590 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREARIEST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dreariest» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dreariest» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dreariest

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QUOTES WITH «DREARIEST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dreariest.
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Faith Baldwin
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREARIEST»

Discover the use of dreariest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dreariest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Chemical Thermodynamics for Process Simulation
This is the only book to apply thermodynamics to real-world process engineering problems.
‎2012
2
Shelley on Love: An Anthology
sharpened to a single mocking, classical couplet: With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go. Shelley never did of course take Emilia Viviani off to that wonderfully enchanted island, with its ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Holmes, 1980
3
Discipline
comfort to the dreariest dwelling. I now experienced that comfort. The friend whom we trust may be dear ; the friend whom we have tried is inestimable. Religion, perhaps, best shows her strength when she rules the prosperous, but her full ...
Mary Brunton, 1832
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Lord Gnome's Literary Companion
Mommie. dreariest. Book Marketing Council: Mother's Day Promotion The Publishers' Association, like any other trade body, is a company of wolves at heart. Its active arm is called the Book Marketing Council. This was set up in 1979 to flog ...
Francis Wheen, 1996
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography : Exile of Unfulfilled ...
... the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and longest journey go.
James Bieri, 2005
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go. Aside from their rhetorical power, these lines contribute a crucial ...
Harold Bloom, 1971
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The Longest Journey
... the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world,—and so With one sad friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.
E. M. Forster, 2008
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Tales of the Great St. Bernard
My fields looked frowningly; birds, fruits,,and flowers, had all deserted the welkin; and I. was wandering down the dreariest pathof our dreariest common, merely to escape the flood ofrsbowy- equipages that rolled- to Molasses' house forv the ...
George Croly, 1828
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Forever Is Over
For our “O” level, we were doing one novel, Jane Eyre, which in my opinion was the dreariest book ever about the dreariest romance ever, one book of poetry by John Betjeman and a Shakespeare play, which for us was “Julius Caesar”.
Calvin Wade, 2011
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Twelve Sermons for the Troubled and Tried:
Yet even in their dreariest winter night, the saints have an aurora in their sky, and in this Eighty-eighth Psalm, the dreariest of all psalms, there is a faint gleam in the first verse, like a star-ray falling upon its threshold—“O Jehovah, God of my ...
Charles H. Spurgeon, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREARIEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dreariest is used in the context of the following news items.
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VATH Mercedes V-Class Is One Fun Van
Being a van driver must be one of the dreariest jobs in the world. You spend your whole day in the city traffic, taking up too much space on the ... «Motorward, Jul 15»
2
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List - 5th July 2015 - We Stand On Secret …
Every other DC books has plummeted to levels unseen since the dreariest pre-New-52 years. Goobye New 52, hello New Failure Too. «Bleeding Cool News, Jul 15»
3
Summer reading countdown: The 5 most entertaining literary classics
Part of the fault lies with the American educational system, which instills philistinism from an early age by selecting some of the dreariest old ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Tri-Cities recover from June's record rainfall
The Hauschilds suspect this June is the dreariest in recent memory, and they're right, as Illinois' rain totals break historic records. Rainfall in ... «Chicago Tribune, Jun 15»
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New Age School With No Disciplinary Policy Rated 'Good' by Ofsted
“They do not know that your friends count on you to be there for them or that your laughter can brighten the dreariest day. … They do not know ... «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
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Jardins Gamelin: a rough spot gets a new look
All this has come to life in what was, until a couple of months ago, one of the dreariest spots in all of downtown Montreal: Place Émilie-Gamelin. «Montreal Gazette, Jun 15»
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Winter gardening in NZ: 3 tasks to do in the garden this weekend
With colourful stalks and leaf veins in shades of gold, orange, red and psychedelic pink, chard adds a shot of flamboyance to even the dreariest ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»
8
Manziel, Pryor, Chemistry, and Offseason Daydreams
With all due respect to the great game of baseball, this is the dreariest part of the sporting calendar, and one that lends itself nicely to offseason ... «Waiting For Next Year, Jun 15»
9
Heart for the People
“The winter months, even during some of the dreariest weather, have really been great,” Brown says. “I've definitely seen my sales and ... «Cincinnati CityBeat, Jun 15»
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Tampa's University Mall to get major facelift, new anchors and …
... as part of a renovation that could start early next year. One of Tampa Bay's oldest — and dreariest — malls is getting a major facelift. «Tampabay.com, Jun 15»

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