drear Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite causing dejection
   blue; dingy; disconsolate; dreary; dark; gloomy; dismal; drab; sorry; grim.
   
   • a blue day
   • the dark days of the war
   • a week of rainy depressing weather
   • a disconsolate winter landscape
   • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
   • a dark gloomy day
   • grim rainy weather

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