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DREAR
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
drear (comparative drearer, )
(poetic) Dreary.
Etymology 2
Noun
drear (plural drears)
(obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
Anagrams
• Rader, arder, arred, darer, rared, rear'd, reard
Source: Wiktionary
Drear, a. Etym: [See Dreary.]
Definition: Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
Drear, n.
Definition: Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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