Dreich

Quick meaning: Dreich is an adjective meaning Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.

Meaning

Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.

More Meanings

1. Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
2. suitably serious or solemn
3. of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute
4. Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).
5. Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.
6. Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.
7. Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.

Example Sentences

So Alec showed her the letter, 'twas long and dreich and went on and on; […]

The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no his marrow left in the toun.

But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.

It looked a dreich, cold place as you rode by at night, near as lonesome as the old Mill was, and not near as handy.

Word Forms

• dreicher
• dreichest
• dree
• dreigh
• dreegh
• dreiches

Synonyms for dreich

Depending on context, synonyms include circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix.

Antonyms for dreich

Common opposites include brief, concise, crisp, laconic, lapidary, short-winded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lengthy, diffusive, long-drawn-out, longspun, long-drawn, long-winded.

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