First Known Use: 1813
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dreich
adjective \ˈdrēḵ\
Definition of DREICH
chiefly Scottish : dreary
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Origin of DREICH
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse drjūgr lasting
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- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
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