DREARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drearily mean? 

• DREARILY (adverb)
  The adverb DREARILY has 1 sense:

1. in a cheerless manner

  Familiarity information: DREARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a cheerless manner

Synonyms:

dismally; drearily

Context example:

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

Pertainym:

dreary (causing dejection)

 Context examples 

“I am very low, Utterson,” replied the doctor drearily, “very low. It will not last long, thank God.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His voice was utterly and drearily expressionless.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Drearily I wound my way downstairs: I knew what I had to do, and I did it mechanically.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After she left him he sat drearily, with drooping shoulders, on the edge of the bed, gazing about him with lack-lustre eyes that saw nothing until the torn wrapper of a magazine, which had come in the morning's mail and which lay unopened, shot a gleam of light into his darkened brain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark; my spirits were depressed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Only one hour in the twenty-four did she pass with her fellow-servants below; all the rest of her time was spent in some low-ceiled, oaken chamber of the second storey: there she sat and sewed—and probably laughed drearily to herself,—as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)