About The Word Drear
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Drear
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What's The Definition Of Drear?
[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
Synonyms | Synonyms for Drear: cheerless | dingy | dismal | drab | dreary | gloomy | sorry | uncheerful Related Terms | Find terms related to Drear: See Also | Drear In Webster's Dictionary \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. ``A drear and dying sound.''
--Milton.
\Drear\, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser. |
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