What is "drear" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does drear mean in English? Meaning of drear definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "drear" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "drear": causing dejection

Adjective

  • Meaning: causing dejection
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry
  • Similar: cheerless depressing uncheerful
  • Adjective: (poetic) Dreary. 1794, William Blake, Earth's Answer, lines 1-2 Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear, 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs Of desolation I had seen and heard In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines: 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XXVIII, lines 1-2 Now dreary dawns the eastern light, And fall of eve is drear,1794, William Blake, Earth's Answer, lines 1-2 Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear,1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs Of desolation I had seen and heard In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XXVIII, lines 1-2 Now dreary dawns the eastern light, And fall of eve is drear,
  • Synonyms:

    lonely, harsh, somber, dreary, sad, dark, gloomy, dismal, grim, black, cheerless, discouraging, funereal, hard, hopeless, joyless, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, comfortless, disheartening, unpromising, bromidic, bummer, cloying, commonplace, drab, dreary, humdrum, interminable, irksome, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stereotyped, stodgy, stupid, tedious, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, weary, zero, arid, bomb, characterless, colorless, dead, drag, drudging, dry, dull, flat, ho hum, insipid, lifeless, nowhere, stale, stuffy, tame, threadbare, unvaried, wearisome, well-worn,

    Antonyms:

    cheerful, joyful, pleasant, glad, encouraging, appealing, comforting, congenial, happy, bright, light, hopeful, sunny, comfortable, nice,

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