Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

Drear \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
   Dismal; gloomy with solitude. ``A drear and dying sound.''
   --Milton.

Source : WordNet®

drear
     adj : depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy
           streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles
           Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town";
           "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the
           heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dingy}, {dismal},
           {drab}, {dreary}, {gloomy}, {sorry}]