dréorig

dréorig
adj dreary, sad, sorrowful, mournful, pensive; causing grief, cruel, horrid, grievous, (1) of persons, (2) of things; 2 bloody, blood-stained, gory, glorious; headlong?; adv \dréoriglíce sorrowfully; drearily, mournfully

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  • dreary — adjective (drearier; est) Etymology: Middle English drery, from Old English drēorig sad, bloody, from drēor gore; akin to Old High German trūrēn to be sad, Gothic driusan to fall Date: before 12th century 1. feeling, displaying, or reflecting… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • dreary — drearily, adv. dreariness, n. drearisome, adj. /drear ee/, adj., drearier, dreariest. 1. causing sadness or gloom. 2. dull; boring. 3. sorrowful; sad. [bef. 900; ME drery, OE dreorig gory, cruel, sad, equiv. to dreor gore + ig Y1; aki …   Universalium

  • dréorilic — see dréorig …   Old to modern English dictionary

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  • dreary — drear|y [ˈdrıəri US ˈdrıri] adj also drear [drıə US drır] literary [: Old English; Origin: dreorig bloody, sad ] dull and making you feel sad or bored ▪ the same old dreary routine ▪ a dreary winter s day >dreariness n [U] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • dreary — [OE] In Old English, dreary (or drēorig, as it then was) meant ‘dripping with blood, gory’, but its etymological connections are with ‘dripping, falling’ rather than with ‘blood’. It goes back to a West Germanic base *dreuz , *drauz which also… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • trauern — Vsw std. (9. Jh.), mhd. trūren, ahd. trūrēn Stammwort. Mit anderer Vokalisierung ae. drēorig trübsinnig . Da ahd. trūrēn auch die Augen niederschlagen bedeutet, liegt der Bedeutung trauern wohl die Bezeichnung einer Trauergebärde (den Kopf senken …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • dreary — O.E. dreorig sad, sorrowful, originally cruel, bloody, blood stained, from dreor gore, blood, from (ge)dreosan (pp. droren) fall, decline, fail, from W.Gmc. *dreuzas (Cf. O.N. dreyrigr gory, bloody, and more remotely, Ger. traurig sad, sorrowful… …   Etymology dictionary

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