DREAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drear mean? 

• DREAR (adjective)
  The adjective DREAR has 1 sense:

1. causing dejection

  Familiarity information: DREAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing dejection

Synonyms:

blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry

Context example:

grim rainy weather

Similar:

cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)

 Context examples 

One drear word comprised my intolerable duty—"Depart!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering—and oh! with agony I thought of what I left.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)