Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drear"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drear \Drear\, n.
Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drear \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. ``A drear and dying sound.''
--Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drear
adj : depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy
streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles
Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town";
"gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the
heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dingy}, {dismal},
{drab}, {dreary}, {gloomy}, {sorry}]
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