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Define the word drear

"Drear" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

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

"Drear" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

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

"drear" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

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]