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How to pronounce drear in English?

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Synonyms blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

Examples of drear

drear
Now it is as dark and drear as the conventions of dystopian science fiction demand.
From the time.com
As we move into the seasons of chill and drear, cassoulet makes hearty and heartening fare.
From the tennessean.com
Supposedly there's-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.
From the canberratimes.com.au
Drear was thrilled to see Krystal finally get her GED.
From the sacbee.com
It's increased because the world we live in is so drear with climate change and all the catastrophes that happen.
From the metro.co.uk
Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair.
From the guardian.co.uk
Talk about drear, my dear.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Yet the attempt should surely be made, drear as that prospect is for a country that has haggled and failed twice since 1987.
From the economist.com
This is an oddity among the Beaux Arts temples that soon rose, and the later hotel tower drear nearby, and Union Square is better for the quirk.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • Blue: 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"
  • Dreary