different between cheerless vs dreich

English

Etymology

cheer +? -less

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)l?s

Adjective

cheerless (comparative more cheerless, superlative most cheerless)

1. Devoid of cheer; gloomy.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sad

   Antonym: cheerful

Derived terms

• cheerlessly
• cheerlessness

Anagrams

• Scheelers, rechlesse

English

Alternative forms

• dree, dreigh

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots dreich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?i?x]

Adjective

dreich (comparative more dreich, superlative most dreich)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, Northern Ireland) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.

Related terms

• dree

Anagrams

• chider, herdic, riched

Irish

Noun

dreich f sg

1. dative singular of dreach (“front”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "dreich" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English *dr?oh < Proto-Germanic *dreuga- (compare Proto-Germanic *dreugaz). Possibly influenced by Brythonic, e.g. Welsh drycin (“bad weather”) < drwg (“bad”) +? hin (“weather”).

Distantly cognate with English drudge, dree, and German trügen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dri?x/, /dri?ç/

Adjective

dreich (comparative mair dreich, superlative maist dreich)

1. persistent, continuous, relentless
2. slow, tardy
3. dismal, dowie, dreary, bleak
   • 2000, Matthew Fitt, But n Ben A-Go-Go, Luath 2000, p.132:

     The dreich inhuman blue on Nadia's lang-wheesht thocht-screen fizzed intae life.

4. tedious, wearisome, drawn-out
5. reluctant, tight-fisted, driving a hard bargain

Derived terms

• dreichly
• deid dreich
• dreich in the draw