What does drear mean?
Definitions for drear
drɪərdrear
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word drear.
Princeton's WordNet
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective
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"
Wiktionary
drearadjective
Dreary.
Etymology: Shortening of dreary.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Drearadjective
Mournful; dismal; sorrowful.
Etymology: dreorig, Saxon, dreary.
In urns and altars round,
A drear and dying sound
Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. John Milton.
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drear
Drear refers to a feeling, state, or atmosphere of sadness, gloominess, or drudgery. It is often used to describe something that is dull, uninteresting, bleak, or depressing.
Webster Dictionary
Drearadjective
dismal; gloomy with solitude
Drearnoun
sadness; dismalness
Etymology: [See Dreary.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Drear
drēr, Dreary, drēr′i, adj. gloomy: cheerless.—adv. Drear′ily.—ns. Drear′iment, Drear′ing, Drear′ihead, Drear′ihood (Spens.), dreariness, cheerlessness; Drear′iness.—adj. Drear′isome, desolate, forlorn. [A.S. dreórig, mournful, bloody—dreór, gore.]
Anagrams for drear »
rared
darer
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of drear in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of drear in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of drear in a Sentence
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
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