A cold, rainy day is dreary. Once upon a midnight dreary (Edgar Allan Poe).
SYNONYM(S): cheerless, tedious, tiresome, dismal.... the high frequencies most people don't seem to notice are like to split my eardrums. Besides, it [television] drearies the ball game (Jean Goldschmidt).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
drear — drear·i·head; drear·i·ly; drear·i·ment; drear·i·ness; drear·i·some; dun·drear·ies; drear; drear·i·hood; drear·ly; drear·ness; … English syllables
Drear — (dr[=e]r), a. [See {Dreary}.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. A drear and dying sound. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Drear — Drear, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
drear — /drear/, adj. Literary. dreary. [1620 30; back formation from DREARY] * * * … Universalium
drear — index bleak (severely simple) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
drear — 1620s, poetic shortening of DREARY (Cf. dreary) … Etymology dictionary
drear — [drir] adj. Old Poet. dreary; melancholy … English World dictionary
drear|i|ly — «DRIHR uh lee», adverb. in a dreary manner; dismally: »She got up drearily, wondering if her troubles would ever end … Useful english dictionary
drear — adjective Date: 1629 dreary • drear noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
drear — adjective /dɹɪə/ Dreary. Earth raised up her headFrom the darkness dread and drear … Wiktionary
