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Meaning of DREAR

Pronunciation:  dreer

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 Definition: [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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 Synonyms: cheerless, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, sorry, uncheerful
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. ``A drear and dying sound.''
--Milton.

  2. \Drear\, n.
Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser.
 
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