dreich

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)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.

Đồng nghĩa: circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole, sesquipedalian, verbose, wordy

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.

Đồng nghĩa: banal, basic, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.

Đồng nghĩa: cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)suitably serious or solemn

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).

Đồng nghĩa: dilatory, tardy, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, lethargic, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.

Đồng nghĩa: burdensome, taxing, toilsome

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.

Đồng nghĩa: persistent, sustained, unceasing, unending, unremitting, amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuate, continuous, dreich, endless, eternal, everlasting, extended, incessant, incessive, infinite, never-ending, nonstop, ongoing, perpetual, persistent, relentless, steady, still, termless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unintermitted, uninterrupted, unremitting, lasting, permanent, successive, uniform

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, obsolete)Of a person: negotiating forcefully; driving a hard bargain.

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, obsolete)Of a place (especially a hill or mountain): difficult to get through or reach; inaccessible.

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, countable)(countable, Northern England, North Midlands) A tedious or troublesome task; also, the most tedious or troublesome part of a task.

(Midlands, North, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, uncountable)Bleakness, gloom; specifically, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.) weather.