Meaning & use
Drear
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Dreary, gloomy, or bleak, especially in tone or atmosphere; used chiefly in poetic or literary contexts.
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The drear November sky hung low over the empty fields.
A drear silence filled the abandoned house.
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"Drear" is the older, poetic form from which the more common "dreary" developed.
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