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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drear \Drear\ (dr[=e]r), a. [See {Dreary}.]
     Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound."
     --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Drear \Drear\, n.
     Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser. Drearihead

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

















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