drear

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

drear
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {blue}, {dark}, {dingy},
           {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim}, {sorry},
           {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Drear \Drear\ (dr[=e]r), a. [See {Dreary}.]
   Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound."
   --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Drear \Drear\, n.
   Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser. Drearihead

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