Word Meanings - DREARINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sorrow; wretchedness. 2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

SORROW
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
SORROWED
Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
GLOOMY
1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
SORROWLESS
Free from sorrow.
SOLITUDE
1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper. 2. Remoteness
SORROWFUL
1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
DISMALNESS
The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
WRETCHEDNESS
1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
OVERSORROW
To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
SEEK-SORROW
One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
UNSORROWED
Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.