Textual thesaurus for "drear"

(adj) gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drab, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, 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