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drear Definition

drear (drir)

adjective

Old Poet. dreary; melancholy

drear Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • winter: You feed it all through the drear winter and that's how it repays you.
  • day: A different story in the dark drear stormy days in winter when there was no transport of any kind for country bairns.

Browse dictionary entries near drear

  1. dreamy
  2. dreamscape
  3. dreamless
  4. dreamland
  5. dreaming
  6. dreamer
  7. dreamboat
  8. dream world
  9. dream up
  10. dream
  1. dreary
  2. dreck
  3. dredge
  4. dredge up
  5. dree
  6. dreggy
  7. dregs
  8. dreidel
  9. Dreiser
  10. drench