Associations to the word «Drear»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

DREAR, adjective. Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne