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PRONUNCIATION OF DREARILY

drearily  [ˈdrɪərɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREARILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drearily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DREARILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of drearily in the English dictionary

The definition of drearily in the dictionary is depressingly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DREARILY


arbitrarily
ˌɑːbɪˈtreərɪlɪ
auditorily
ˈɔːdɪtərɪlɪ
beerily
ˈbɪərɪlɪ
blearily
ˈblɪərɪlɪ
cheerily
ˈtʃɪərɪlɪ
contrarily
kənˈtrɛərɪlɪ
eerily
ˈɪərɪlɪ
evolutionarily
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənərɪlɪ
fiduciarily
fɪˈdjuːʃɪərɪlɪ
fierily
ˈfaɪərɪlɪ
leerily
ˈlɪərɪlɪ
legendarily
ˈlɛdʒəndərɪlɪ
necessarily
ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ
secondarily
ˈsekəndərɪlɪ
subsidiarily
səbˈsɪdɪərɪlɪ
summarily
ˈsʌmərɪlɪ
tearily
ˈtɪərɪlɪ
voluntarily
ˈvɒləntərɪlɪ
wearily
ˈwɪərɪlɪ
wirily
ˈwaɪərɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREARILY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREARILY

charily
complementarily
contemporarily
customarily
exemplarily
extraordinarily
involuntarily
literarily
militarily
momentarily
monetarily
ordinarily
pecuniarily
preliminarily
primarily
satisfactorily
scarily
temporarily
unitarily
unnecessarily
warily

Synonyms and antonyms of drearily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drearily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREARILY

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

Translator English - Chinese

沉寂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tristemente
570 millions of speakers

English

drearily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

drearily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بشكل موحش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тоскливо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drearily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

drearily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tristement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dermanya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

trostlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

drearily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

drearily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drearily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

drearily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

drearily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Drearily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

drearily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tristemente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drearily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тоскно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drearily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θλιβερά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drearily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drearily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drearily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drearily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREARILY»

The term «drearily» is normally little used and occupies the 116.556 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREARILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drearily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drearily» 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 drearily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREARILY»

Discover the use of drearily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drearily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
Now sad old memories steal again, Through the arched portals of my brain, Bringing me back a ceaseless pain, As the rain sobs drearily. My days are made of unhappy hours : My path lies through deserted bowers, Where never again will  ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew, 1858
2
The Knickerbocker
THE rain comes plashing in my face ; The whispering wind blows by grimace ; The clouds reel on with quickening pace, 1 As the rain sobs drearily.' The summer-flowers are dead, and gone ; The leaves have fallen, one by one ; The silvery ...
John Holmes Agnew, 1858
3
Poems
Allan Park Paton. The Moonlight shone upon the blind, The moon still toiling wearily ! When Something seemed to pass behind ! And the wind was moaning drearily ! A Shadow flitted o'er the floor, And the moon was toiling wearily ! As if One ...
Allan Park Paton, 1848
4
The universal songster, or, Museum of mirth: forming the ...
... When falsehood ne'er infests That heart which love, enhancing, Seeks as at bed of rest. Merrily, merrily, &('. Drearily, drearily beams the eye, Whose glance is ever fleeting ; Drearily, too, that bosom's sigh, Where true love ne'er is beating.
5
The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most ...
Drenrily, drearily beams the eye, Whose glance is ever fleeting ; Drearily, too, that bosom's sigh, Where true love ne'er is beating. Oh ! 'tis hard to meet with sadness , Or droop beneath the storms of fate; But still those ills, alas! are gladness.
6
The National and Religious Song Reader: Patriotic, ...
Instead, "Volga Boatmen" gives the distinct impression of "Drearily, drearily, drearily, drearily, Life is very hard." Published in 1866 in a collection of Russian folk songs, "Volga Boatmen" (originally entitled "Burlatskaia") accurately paints a  ...
William Emmett Studwell, 1996
7
The Prague Cemetery
The #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose “Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph.” – New York Review of Books Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ...
Umberto Eco, 2011
8
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. / The Songs of ...
How eerily, how drearily, how wearily to pine, When my love 's in a foreign land, far frae thae arms o' mine; Three years hae come an' gane, sin' first he said to me, That he wad stayat hame wi'Jean,wi' herto live an'dee; The day comes in ...
Unknown, 2014
9
Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
How drearily in College hall The Doctor stretchedthe hours! But in each pause we heard the call Of robins out ofdoors. The airis wise,the windthinks well, And all through which it blows, If plant or brain, if eggor cell, To joyful beauty grows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2013
10
Grey Magic
... most healthy sex and violence, was ruthlessly bumped off the air to make way for the same drearily predictable rota of faces being subjected to the same drearily predictable questions, and replying with the same drearily predictable drivel.
Richard Leigh, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREARILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drearily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Janice Jensen: Affordable housing needs state support
The facts are drearily familiar: Santa Clara County has the third-highest homeless population in the nation. Rents have increased 54 percent ... «Oroville Mercury Register, Jul 15»
2
John Doyle: CBC's Still Standing gets laughs in small-town Canada
From that you could extrapolate some dread – dread that it's a drearily nutritive exploration of Canadian hokum. It isn't. And that's mainly thanks ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
App forecasts the weather via Kimmy K outfits
How about a patchy fog and drizzle in drearily cold Birmingham? An obnoxious high-end hoodie by Haider Ackermann wouldn't go astray. «Daily Life, Jul 15»
4
What a Dish! UK's Most Beautiful Plates of Food
A tribute to Japanese onsen ('hot bath' eggs) and often, drearily, the signature of the wannabe molecular chef. Not here, though. Pea sorbet ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
5
Condoms are So Hundred Years Ago: Why Better Birth Control for …
Drearily, sexual encounters outside of mutual monogamy MUST include protection against STDs, and condoms are not just the best, but ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jul 15»
6
Clare Balding's Wimbledon highlights show was dauntingly difficult …
Kept off the air while Venus Williams drearily thrashed some unknown outsider on Court 456. A clear sign that bungling Beeb bosses were ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
David Roth's Weak In Review: Free Agency, Free Will, And Semi …
... leveraged assets and interlocking efficiencies, is drearily familiar from the equally unequal world in which we non-NBA players sell our labor. «VICE, Jul 15»
8
Mrs Engels review: X marx the heart
... she is always self-conscious, always watching with that shrewd disenchanted eye of hers, always drearily playing a role she has no heart for. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
9
The Future's Bright: Young People More Conservative Than Parent's …
Although the Daily Telegraph's new 'Women' (or rather, drearily feminist) section reacted to the news with undisguised contempt, it transpires ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
10
The Twelve-Pound Look at the Shaw Festival delights
It's unnecessary and drearily unfunny in its over-the-top presentation – but after that she doesn't set a foot wrong. It's a nice amuse-bouche ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

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