dreariness
111vapidity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, life lessness, sterileness …
112vapidness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavor lessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, life lessness,… …
113dreary — 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] …
114bleakness — n. gloom, dreariness; desolation …
115cheerlessness — n. gloominess, dreariness, lack of cheer …
116dismalness — n. dreariness, depression, somberness, lack of cheer …
117drabness — n. dreariness, dullness …
118Desolation Angels — by Jack Kerouac (1965) Ellis Amburn, Jack Kerouac’s last editor, called Desolation Angels Kerouac’s “lost masterpiece, the final flowering of his great creative period in the fifties: the true voice of Kerouac.” Dan Wakefield, writing for The… …
119Junky — by William S. Burroughs (1953) This first novel by William S. Burroughs is his most accessible work. While many readers have difficulty with Burroughs’s later novels, this one resembles the straightforward, hard boiled prose of Dashiell… …
120dreary — adjective (drearier, dreariest) dull, bleak, and depressing. Derivatives drearily adverb dreariness noun Origin OE drēorig gory, cruel, melancholy , from drēor gore , of Gmc origin; related to drowsy, and prob. to drizzle …
