1. drear - Noun
2. drear - Adjective
3. drear - Adjective Satellite
Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
Sadness; dismalness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDrear ritual turned its wheel. Mervyn Peake
Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,- So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace When the drear soul desires thee. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Between the mysteries of death and life Thou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining; We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze, And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining; No crushing fate, no stony destiny! Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee. Harriet Beecher Stowe
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'' Rudyard Kipling
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the dark days of the war Source: Internet