different between dreary vs lonesome

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)

1. 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...
2. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.

Derived terms

• drear
• drearihead
• drearihood
• drearily
• dreariment
• dreariness
• drearisome

Translations

Anagrams

• Ardrey, Drayer, yarder, yarred

English

Alternative forms

• lanesome (Scotland)

Etymology

From lone +? -some, mid-17th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ns?m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??ns?m/
• Hyphenation: lone?some

Adjective

lonesome (comparative more lonesome, superlative most lonesome)

1. Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.

Derived terms

• high lonesome sound

Translations

Noun

lonesome (plural lonesomes)

1. (informal) Oneself alone.

   I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome.

Derived terms

• on one's lonesome