Distasteful vs Dreary - What's the difference?
distasteful | dreary | Related terms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
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Distasteful is a related term of dreary.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and dreary
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Antonyms
* pleasant, pleasingdreary
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Adjective
(en-adj)- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered, weak and weary...
- It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.