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drear
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective drear has 1 sense
- drear(s = adj.all) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry - 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"
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