drear : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drear	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for drear
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drear adj causing dejection; "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" Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drear \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. [bd]A drear and dying sound.[b8] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drear \Drear\, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser.