Drear a.  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. “A drear and dying sound.”
  Drear, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.]
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  drear
       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 [syn: dingy, dismal,
             drab, dreary, gloomy, sorry]