drear

3 definitions found

drear - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drear \Drear\ (dr[=e]r), a. [See Dreary.]
     Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound."
     --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

  Drear \Drear\, n.
     Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser. Drearihead

drear - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  drear
      adj 1: 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" [syn: blue, dark, dingy,
             disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry,
             drab, drear, dreary]