Associations to the word «Drear»

Wiktionary

DREAR, adjective. (poetic) Dreary.
DREAR, noun. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

Dictionary definition

DREAR, adjective. Causing dejection; "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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope