how to pronounce dreary

/dɹɪɹiː/

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dreary is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of dreary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… it's been a rather dreary Tuesday across …”

meaning of dreary

Dreary means dull, depressing, or cheerless.

dreary frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word dreary occurs in english on average 4.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics dreary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that dreary can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;