What are some alternative words for drear?
Synonyms for drear
drɪər
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Princeton's WordNet
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary(adj)
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"
Synonyms:
black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimedAntonyms:
cheerful
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#402 | low | |
#618 | blue | |
#841 | bad | |
#1640 | dark | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#4328 | dirty | |
#4358 | sick | |
#5071 | sad | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8139 | naughty | |
#10536 | stern | |
#11816 | coloured | |
#11986 | juicy | |
#11990 | moody | |
#12027 | sour | |
#12913 | depressed | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#13395 | spicy | |
#14856 | grim | |
#18321 | muddy | |
#19532 | sober | |
#19559 | sinister | |
#24248 | relentless | |
#28256 | raunchy | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#32543 | profane | |
#36370 | gruesome | |
#36399 | macabre | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#38220 | risque | |
#40996 | pitiful | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#42423 | distressing | |
#43052 | drab | |
#45019 | aristocratic | |
#45940 | bluish | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#47719 | racy | |
#47762 | somber | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#55032 | deplorable | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#58451 | sullen | |
#59538 | sombre | |
#60472 | unforgiving | |
#63820 | patrician | |
#63931 | blasphemous | |
#65806 | grubby | |
#68728 | dour | |
#73839 | inexorable | |
#77107 | glum | |
#77150 | sulky | |
#81752 | downcast | |
#82500 | grimy | |
#86167 | grungy | |
#86369 | morose | |
#95216 | lamentable | |
#108246 | puritanical | |
#116500 | benighted | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#134051 | regretful | |
#135003 | muddied | |
#145816 | inconsolable | |
#147160 | dispirited | |
#167212 | disconsolate | |
#169244 | drear | |
#177601 | meritless | |
#186740 | saturnine | |
#193909 | gamey | |
#195687 | glowering | |
#208795 | blueish | |
#245806 | downhearted |
How to use drear in a sentence?
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.
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