Drear

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɹɪə/

Origin

Shortening of dreary.

Full definition of drear

Adjective

1. (poetic) Dreary.
• 1794, William Blake, , lines 1-2Earth raised up her head
  From the darkness dread and drear,
• 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
  Of desolation I had seen and heard
  

• 1922, , , XXVIII, lines 1-2Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
  And fall of eve is drear,

Noun

1. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.2:She thankt him deare
  Both for that newes he did to her impart,
  And for the courteous care which he did beare
  Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.

Anagrams

• darer
• rared