drear
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Is drear a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of drear?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (poetic, literary) Dreary.Examples: "Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear,"; "I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs Of desolation I had seen and heard In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:"; "And over all, the dead silence of the dead, the sense of utter loneliness, and the brooding spirit of the Past! How beautiful it was, and yet how drear! We did not dare to speak aloud."Synonyms: bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, depressing, desolateliterarypoetic
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.Examples: "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."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary