drearya.[OE. dreori, dreri, AS. drerig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dresan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]1. Sorrowful; distressful.(Spenser.)2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.(Prior.)Full many a dreary anxious hour. (Keble.)Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. (Macaulay.)