Adjective: drearsome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more drearsome |
| Superlative | most drearsome |
Sample Sentences
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It seemed to me illogical that, at some expense, the Government was going to keep me for eighteen months doing something for which I had no aptitude whatever. Even when I eventually settled to the dull and drearsome life in the Pay Office in Singapore, I had good shorthand speed and I could type, but these jobs were allotted to civilians while I tried to make sense of army accounting. [2008, Leslie Thomas, In My Wildest Dreams:]
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“[...] And as if it were your custom to wear your best habit on a drearsome day like this one. The old blue one were good enough for Miss Charley and Miss Melissa afore today.” [2013, Amanda Scott, Dangerous Illusions:]
Adjectives inflected like drearsome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English drear
3. Proto-Indo-European *sem-
4. Proto-Indo-European *somHós
5. Proto-Germanic *samaz
6. Proto-Germanic *-samaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *-sam
8. Old English -sum
9. Middle English -som
10. English -some
11. English drearsome
12. From drear + -some.