dreariness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreariness
Noun
  • Jane Goodall’s passing is a moment of profound sadness.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Multiplying forms of addiction, proliferating mental illness—in the midst of the Iraq War, with the Cold War paradigm dead alongside the USSR, and the Regan 1980s in the rearview, the United States of the 00s was marked by a pervasive sadness captured in Wallace’s prose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If conditions are right, the clusters swirl into a storm known as a tropical wave or tropical depression.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Newsweek spoke with two mental health experts to better understand the rare condition, which is characterized by both schizophrenia symptoms and mood disorders such as mania or depression.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An aura of melancholy does not stop Madvillainy from being endlessly joyful and playful.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But even here, the ache of the lovers’ separation registers with only a muffled sense of melancholy.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Appropriate to the popular conception of the morose genius, Poe’s initial 1849 funeral, held amidst the October gloom, was sparsely attended.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Over the years, Cramer has been warning against the doom-and-gloom calls from billionaire investors.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Dreariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreariness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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