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]