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dreariment

dreariment noun: dreariness.

Noun

dreariment (usually uncountable, plural dreariments)

  1. (obsolete, usually) dreariness
    • But for to tell the doleful dreariment1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of dreariment

pluraldreariments

Origin of dreariment

From dreary + -ment.

Questions about dreariment

What does dreariment mean?
Dreariment means dreariness.
What part of speech is dreariment?
Dreariment is a noun.
What is the plural of dreariment?
The plural of dreariment is dreariments.

Words near dreariment in the dictionary

  1. drearies
  2. dreariest
  3. drearihead
  4. drearihood
  5. drearily
  6. dreariment
  7. dreariments
  8. dreariness
  9. drearinesses
  10. drearisome
  11. drearness

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