ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dryasdust

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dryasdust is a noun meaning A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.

Meaning

A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.

More Meanings

  1. Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.

Example Sentences

[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
[…] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”

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Related dictionary entries include blandfest, prose, humdrum, dullsville, dullness, driness.

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