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Definition of dreary : 1. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
2. Sorrowful; distressful.

Synonyms:

grisly, muddy, dirty, racy, low-spirited, unforgiving, muddied, gamey, gruesome, irksome, risque, light, inconsolable, glooming, grubby, good-for-nothing, dark-skinned, macabre, olive-drab, profane, grimy, raunchy, uncheerful, lamentable, sombre, happy, relentless, ghastly, good-for-naught, drear, no-good, blueish, begrimed, blasphemous, weary, distressing, glowering, gamy, excite, non-white, desolate, pitiful, dour, sour, meritless, naughty, patrician, benighted, tenebrific, gloomful, puritanical, bad, downcast, sick, unappeasable, unconsolable, spicy, mordant, aristocratic, stern, cheerless, grungy, weariful, sorry, inexorable, unrelenting, deplorable, regretful, sinister, puritanic, no-account, sulky, bluish, stuffy, sober, saturnine, gentle, down in the mouth, aristocratical, blue-blooded, coloured, no-count, juicy, down, low, forbidding

dusky, dark, shaded, obscure, darkened, cloudy, shady, murky, silhouetted, sooty, swarthy, umbrageous, dim, lightless, inky, black, shadowy

commonplace, uninteresting, humdrum, prosaic, insipid, monotonous, wearisome, tedious, mundane, tiresome, boring, depressing, dry

disheartened, heartbroken, despairing, sad, disconsolate, gloomy, blue, lachrymose, depressed, woeful, anguished, downhearted, contemplative, dejected, sullen, mournful, dispirited, wistful, grim, moody, dolorous, morose, glum, anxious, discouraged, despondent, overcome, pensive, melancholy, joyless, plaintive

bleak, bare, forgotten, deserted, forsaken, forlorn, stark, inhospitable, barren, desert, lonely, uninhabited, abandoned, dismal, miserable

grizzled, ashen, iron-gray, pearly, pearl-gray, neutral-tint, dingy, mousy, salt-and-pepper, dapple-gray, battleship-gray, gun metal, smoky, gray, somber, leaden, silvery, taupe, drab, dull, lead-gray, mole-gray

Usage examples:

• They had been travelling, so they told me, with a sort of dreary satisfaction, for two years, and they had still about a year to do. - "Olivia in India", O. Douglas.
• Something came into her mind, dreary and terrible. - "Love of Brothers", Katharine Tynan.
• In the summer she sat on the steps, and her soul was empty and dreary and bitter. - "Best Russian Short Stories", Various.