Dreary /(drēr"y̆)/

Drear·y

Dreary

a.
  1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.]
  2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
    Full many a dreary anxious hour.
    Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.