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Dreary vs Discouraging - What's the difference?

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Dreary is a related term of discouraging.


As adjectives the difference between dreary and discouraging

is that dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling while discouraging is that causes discouragement.

As a verb discouraging is

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As a noun discouraging is

discouragement.

dreary

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
    • 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...
  • * 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
    • It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

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    discouraging

    English

    Verb

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    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that causes discouragement
  • * 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range
  • * Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • discouragement
  • * Lydia Ann Barclay
    • But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings , and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles