dreary
意味
- 人を悲しくさせる,わびしい,ものさびしい(dismal)
- 《話》気をめいらせる,おもしろくない(dull)
例文
What makes life dreary is the want of motivation.
人生を退屈にするのは動機の欠如である。
I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
私は明日もう一つ別の退屈な会合に出なければならない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-West Germanic *dreuʀag, from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trurich (“sad, dreary”), West Frisian treurich (“sad, dreary”), Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrugr, dreyrigr (“bloody, gory”), whence Icelandic dreyrugur (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).