definition of
drear

[1] #1 drear s. [blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, dreary] 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". wn