different between lowering vs dreary

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English louryng, louringe, lowrynge, later variant of lourand, lowrand, lourande, lowrande, equivalent to lour +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch loerend (“lurking, louring”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la??r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la??r??/

Adjective

lowering (comparative more lowering, superlative most lowering)

1. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.

   Synonyms: gloomy, threatening
2. That lowers or frowns.

   Synonyms: frowning, scowling, gloomy, sullen, glowering

3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.

Noun

lowering (plural lowerings)

1. Alternative form of louring.

Alternative forms

• louring

Derived terms

Etymology 2

c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?(?)r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l???r??/

Verb

lowering

1. present participle of lower

Noun

lowering (plural lowerings)

1. The act of something being lowered.

Translations

Anagrams

• roweling

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