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What is the adjective for drearisome?

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dreary
  1. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
  2. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “For many of them, Miami shopping adds significance to their otherwise dreary lives.”
      “Its cocktail of money, privilege, and intrigue was a heady mix for a country otherwise steeped in dreary news of strikes, economic stagnation, and IRA bombs.”
      “It was raining as the two men came out of the train station, and the rain accentuated the gray and dreary atmosphere of the scene.”
drearsome
  1. Marked by dreariness; characteristically dreary.
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drearisome
drearier
  1. comparative form of dreary: more dreary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It was a house which typified the drearier tenets of its occupier with great exactness.”
      “Steadily drearier grew the ocean, flatter all the heathen lands.”
      “Without frosty, refreshing root beer on a hot summer day, everyone appears a little droopier and feels somewhat drearier.”
dreariest
  1. superlative form of dreary: most dreary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A bit of spangle and the dreariest band gets to count the raves on a hundred adoring hands, even if their records are then roundly ignored.”
      “It was a heavy forenoon for me, perhaps the bleakest and dreariest of my life.”
      “They were the longest, the dullest, the dreariest, the most irritatingly undelighting weeks that he had ever lived through.”
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