drear
Plural: drears
Adjective Satellite
- causing dejection
Adj
- Dreary.
Noun
- A state of gloom, dullness, or being dreary.
- Gloom; sadness.
Examples
- The drear of his terrible tile rack cast a shadow over his Words With Friends game.
Origin / Etymology
Shortening of dreary.
Synonyms
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dire, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gray, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 6
drear: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrear: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drear: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary