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drear - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'drear' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Drear [ a.]
- Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
2 . Drear [ n.]
- Sadness; dismalness.

Meaning of 'drear' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . drear [ s]
Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
  • a blue day;
  • a dark gloomy day;
  • a disconsolate winter landscape;
  • a week of rainy depressing weather;
  • grim rainy weather;
  • the dark days of the war;
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November

Nearby Words:

dread dread-bolted dreadable dreaded dreader dreadful dreadfully dreadfulness dreading dreadingly

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