drear

Other forms of drear

comparative

drearer·

superlative

drearest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drear

What does drear mean?

drear means "causing dejection".

How many syllables are in drear?

drear has 2 syllables: dre-ar. The stress falls on "dre".

What is another word for drear?

Close synonyms include blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drear a common word?

drear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.