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
- 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.”
Word Forms
- dryasdusts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blandfest, prose, humdrum, dullsville, dullness, driness.
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