Difference between Dreary and Cheerless

DREARY vs CHEERLESS: ADJECTIVE

Depressing in character or appearance
Dismal; bleak.
Boring; dull.
Sorrowful; distressful.
Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Grievous, dire; appalling.
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
Causing dejection
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

Sorrowful; sad.
Lonesomely dismal or gloomy; exciting a feeling of desolation, sadness, or gloom.
Hence Exciting a feeling of tedium or ennui; tiresomely monotonous: as, a dreary book.
Synonyms and Cheerless, comfortless, drear, dark. Tedious.

Without joy, gladness, or comfort; gloomy; destitute of anything to enliven or animate the spirits.

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

January when it was cooler and dreary outside.
How dreary for Stefan, saw him and jumped.
Who would not shun the dreary uncouth place?
How dreary and comfortless to be a peasant!
It is still a damp and dreary day.
Buckingham Palace loomed up unlighted, huge and dreary.
Dull, dry and dreary, to say the least.
Oh, I'll trade you dreary London for dreary California any day of the week-on our 9th straight day of rain.
Be as dreary as if there were no Virginias alas, how dreary would be as dreary as there.
Yalta and I am dreary, very dreary indeed.

Why are you coming home so cheerless and so joyless?.
Cheerless, functional but very cheap and right outside the station; some rooms without toilets.
CALENDER, polish, gloss, burnish, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, furbish, give a glossy surface to.
Some plan it simple, sighed, the teenagers emitted in unison a cheerless mating howl.
This house was altogether too large and cheerless for two people, especially at Christmas.
How truly consistent is the cowardice of suicide with such a cheerless creed!
Again he remained before the cheerless, empty fireplace until sleep overcame him.
Frenchman the cheerless prospect of being attacked on both sides.
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.