Usually means: Gloomy, dull, and depressingly bleak.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. drear: Merriam-Webster
  2. drear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drear, drear: Wordnik
  7. drear: Wiktionary
  8. drear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. drear: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Drear, drear: Dictionary.com
  12. Drear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. drear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. drear: Rhymezone
  15. Drear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. drear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. drear: FreeDictionary.org
  18. drear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. drear: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drear: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DREAR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drear)

adjective:  (poetic, literary) Dreary.
noun:  (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

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