drear: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of drear

  • dreary
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    dreary

    • adjective satellite lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
      drab.
      • her drab personality
      • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
      • a series of dreary dinner parties
    • adjective satellite causing dejection
      blue; dingy; drear; disconsolate; 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
  • dreariness
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    dreariness

    • noun extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
      insipidness; boringness; insipidity.
  • drearily
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    drearily

    • adverb in a cheerless manner
      dismally.
      • in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future
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    dreary

    • adjective satellite lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
      drab.
      • her drab personality
      • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
      • a series of dreary dinner parties
    • adjective satellite causing dejection
      blue; dingy; drear; disconsolate; 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
  • drearier
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    dreary

    • adjective satellite lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
      drab.
      • her drab personality
      • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
      • a series of dreary dinner parties
    • adjective satellite causing dejection
      blue; dingy; drear; disconsolate; 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

Derived words of drear

  • dundreary
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    dundreary

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About Prefix and Suffix Words

This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `drear`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.

While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `drear`, some are not.

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