Drear

Word DREAR
Character 5
Hyphenation drear
Pronunciations /dɹɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Drear"

What do we mean by drear?

Dreary. adjective

Dreary.

Dread; dismalness; grief; sorrow; dreadfulness. noun

Dismal; gloomy with solitude. adjective

Sadness; dismalness. noun

Dreary. adjective

Causing dejection adjective

Dreary.

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Talking without purpose Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Drear

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The word "drear" in example sentences

With all this she was happier than she knew, and after Shelley's death she exclaims, with tragic conviction, "Alas! having lived day by day with one of the wisest, best, and most affectionate of spirits, how void, bare, and drear is the scene of life!" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing lifts London like emerging from the drear winter clampdown into the freshness of early spring. ❋ Sam Leith (2011)

Places on the eastern slope of the dramatically rising high Mexican Central Plain are subject to climate modifications brought on by the proximity of the Gulf of Mexico so in places such as Xalapa look for much cloudy coastal drizzle and drear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here in Providence, it's rainy and drear and chilly and windy. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now the Hither Isles are flat and cold and swampy, with drear-drab light and all manner of slimy, creeping things, and piles of dirt and clouds of flying dust and sordid scraping and feeding and noise. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

So the woman went forth on the hills of God to do battle for the King, on that drear day in the land of the Heavy Laden, when the heathen raged and imagined a vain thing. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Some pageant stories have been passed along so they've reached the level of myth, like the one about the innkeeper who looked at a poor bedraggled Mary and a well-traveled Joseph and rewrote scripture by inviting them to stay at his place in Bethlehem instead of that fabled stable drear. ❋ Rick Hamlin (2010)

Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating, me from the drear November eve. ❋ CHARLOTTE BRONTË (2010)

Elis subsided with a defeated sigh and a drear smile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cadfael looked back from Anion ap Griffri to Griffri ap Llywarch, to whose drear and childless middle age this unlooked, for son had suddenly supplied a warm heart of hope and content. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, this series serves up something perhaps even more welcome as the drear days of winter settle in: an absurdist take on crime, as well as plotlines and sentences that perform buoyant loop-de-loops all over the page before making flawless landings. ❋ Maureen Corrigan (2010)

I was in trouble and you have relieved me nobly and at a time when all seemed dark and drear. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

Drear: SKYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE [WHY YOU DO DIS] ;_; ❋ Skye000000 (2013)

"Oh my god! Our [maths teacher] was drearing for one [hour] [and a half]! it was driving me mental!" ❋ Lozzza (2006)

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