Definition of drear Drear

drear

We found 5 definitions of drear from 4 different sources.

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What does drear mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

drear - 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"
  blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, dreary
  cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • drear (a.)
    Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
  • drear (n.)
    Sadness; dismalness.

Part of speech

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  • drear, adjective.

Pronunciation

Word frequency

Drear is...

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Sign Language

drear in sign language
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