| Pronunciation: | | dreer
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WordNet Dictionary |
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[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |
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DREAR is a 5 letter word that starts with D. |
| | Synonyms: | | cheerless, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, sorry, uncheerful |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. ``A drear and dying sound.''
--Milton.
\Drear\, n.
Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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