drear
1drear — drear·i·head; drear·i·ly; drear·i·ment; drear·i·ness; drear·i·some; dun·drear·ies; drear; drear·i·hood; drear·ly; drear·ness; …
2drear|y — «DRIHR ee», adjective, drear|i|er, drear|i|est, verb, drear|ied, drear|y| …
3Drear — (dr[=e]r), a. [See {Dreary}.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. A drear and dying sound. Milton. [1913 Webster] …
4Drear — Drear, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser …
5drear — /drear/, adj. Literary. dreary. [1620 30; back formation from DREARY] * * * …
6drear — index bleak (severely simple) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
7drear — 1620s, poetic shortening of DREARY (Cf. dreary) …
8drear — [drir] adj. Old Poet. dreary; melancholy …
9drear|i|ly — «DRIHR uh lee», adverb. in a dreary manner; dismally: »She got up drearily, wondering if her troubles would ever end …
10drear — adjective Date: 1629 dreary • drear noun …
