Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise:
— A series of dreary dinner parties.

synonym: drab.

Roget 87: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless^†.    unaccompanied, unattended; solus [Lat.], single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated^†, azygous, first and last; isolated etc. (disjoined) 44; insular.    monospermous^†; unific^†, uniflorous^†, unifoliate^†, unigenital^†, uniliteral^†, unijocular^†, unimodal [Math.], unimodular^†.    lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary.    insecable^†, inseverable^†, indiscerptible^†; compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable^†.    ... show more

Causing dejection.

synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry.

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery^†; unlively^†; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste [Fr.], clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.    dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater^†; depressing etc. v.. melancholy as a gib cat;" oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one's luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish^†, dumpish, mopish^†, moping; moody, glum; sulky etc. (discontented) 832; out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary etc. 841; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen^†, chopfallen^†, jaw fallen, crest fallen.    sad, pensive, penseroso [It], tristful^†; dolesome^†, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped^†, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious^†, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.    serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.    disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole [Fr.], sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir [Fr.]; in despair etc. 859; lost.    overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken etc. (mental suffering) 828^†; cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.    ... show more

Roget 830: causing pain, hurting etc. v.; hurtful etc. (bad) 649; painful; dolorific^†, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.    unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.    distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.    irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy^†; awkward.    importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking.    intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.    shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.    odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.    nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful^†; fulsome; vile etc. (bad) 649; hideous etc. 846.    sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic^†, pyrotic [Med.].    ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.    ... show more

Polish: mroczny