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say it: DRIR-ee
dreary is an adjective meaning "lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise". It is pronounced /ˈdɹɪɹi/ — DRIR-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
causing dejection
“a blue day”
“the dark days of the war”
“a week of rainy depressing weather”
“a disconsolate winter landscape”
“the first dismal dispiriting days of November”
“a dark gloomy day”
“grim rainy weather”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dreary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.