Difference between Dingy and Dreary

What is the difference between Dingy and Dreary?

Dingy as an adjective is drab; shabby; dirty; squalid while Dreary as an adjective is grievous, dire; appalling.

Dingy

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: drab; shabby; dirty; squalid

Dreary

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Grievous, dire; appalling.Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

Example sentence: From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land.

We hope you now know whether to use Dingy or Dreary in your sentence.

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