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Synonyms & Antonyms of drear
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1
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
- it was a drear morning in January when I went to take my driving test
Synonyms for drear
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
Words Related to drear
- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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2
causing unhappiness
- a barren and drear existence in a remote village
Synonyms for drear
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drear
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of drear (Entry 2 of 2)
as in morbidness, moroseness
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for drear
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for drear
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- ecstasy,
- elatedness,
- elation,
- euphoria,
- exhilaration,
- exuberance,
- exultation,
- felicity,
- gladness,
- gladsomeness,
- happiness,
- heaven,
- intoxication,
- joy,
- joyfulness,
- joyousness,
- jubilation,
- rapture,
- rapturousness
- gaiety
- (also gayety),
- gayness,
- glee,
- gleefulness,
- humor,
- jollity,
- joviality,
- lightheartedness,
- merriment,
- mirth,
- mirthfulness
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“Drear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drear. Accessed 20 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of drear was in 1629
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