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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