Antonyms for drearisome


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dreer-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪər i


Definition of drearisome

Origin :
  • Old English dreorig "sad, sorrowful," originally "cruel, bloody, blood-stained," from dreor "gore, blood," from (ge)dreosan (past participle droren) "fall, decline, fail," from West Germanic *dreuzas (cf. Old Norse dreyrigr "gory, bloody," and more remotely, German traurig "sad, sorrowful"), from PIE root *dhreu- "to fall, flow, drip, droop" (see drip (v.)).
  • The word has lost its original sense of "dripping blood." Sense of "dismal, gloomy" first recorded 1667 in "Paradise Lost," but Old English had a related verb drysmian "become gloomy."
  • As in cheerless : adj depressing, unhappy

Synonyms for drearisome

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