drear

adjective

ˈdrir 

: dreary

drear noun

Synonyms

• black
• bleak
• cheerless
• chill
• Cimmerian
• cloudy
• cold
• comfortless
• dark
• darkening
• depressing
• depressive
• desolate
• dire
• disconsolate
• dismal
• dreary
• dreich [chiefly Scottish]
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• forlorn
• funereal
• gloomy
• glum
• godforsaken
• gray
• grey
• lonely
• lonesome
• lugubrious
• miserable
• morbid
• morose
• murky
• plutonian
• saturnine
• sepulchral
• solemn
• somber
• sombre
• sullen
• sunless
• tenebrific
• tenebrous
• wretched

Examples of drear in a Sentence

it was a drear morning in January when I went to take my driving test

a barren and drear existence in a remote village

Word History

First Known Use

1629, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

drear

adjective

ˈdri(ə)r 

: dreary