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dreary
English
Etymology
From Middle English drery, from Old English dr?ori? (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear +? -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English dr?or (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d???i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d????i/
- Rhymes: -???i, -??i
Adjective
dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary)
- Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
- (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
Derived terms
- drear
- drearihead
- drearihood
- drearily
- dreariment
- dreariness
- drearisome
Translations
Anagrams
- Ardrey, Drayer, yarder, yarred
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destitute
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?st?tju?t/
- (yod coalescence) IPA(key): /?d?st?t?u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?st?tu?t/
- Hyphenation: des?ti?tute
Etymology 1
From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin d?stit?tus.
Adjective
destitute (comparative more destitute, superlative most destitute)
- (followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid
- 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie Chapter 9
- Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatly destitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.
- 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 141:8
- In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
- 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie Chapter 9
- lacking money; poor, impoverished
- May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag
- In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.
- 1918, Henry Leyford Gates translating Aurora Mardiganian, Ravished Armenia
- according to the most careful estimates, 3,950,000 destitute peoples, mostly women and children who had been driven many of them as far as one thousand miles from home, turn their pitiful faces toward America for help in the reconstructive period in which we are now living.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 45
- ‘Do you know how pinched and destitute I am?’ she retorted. ‘I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me. […] ’
- May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:impoverished
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English destituten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
destitute (third-person singular simple present destitutes, present participle destituting, simple past and past participle destituted)
- (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.
Translations
Latin
Adjective
d?stit?te
- vocative masculine singular of d?stit?tus
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