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for Drear
From The 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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Drear \Drear\, n.
Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser. Drearihead
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
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]
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