
1) Bleak 2) Cheerless 3) Dismal 4) Dreary 5) Uncheerful
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1) Bleak, to a bard 2) Bleak, to blake 3) Bleak, to Keats 4) Boring day with mother 5) Causing dejection 6) Cheerless 7) Cheerless, to the bard 8) Depressing in odes 9) Dingy 10) Dismal 11) Dismal in poetry 12) Dismal to a bard 13) Dismal, old-style 14) Dismal, poetically 15) Dismal, to a poet 16) Dismal, to donne
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• (n.) Sadness; dismalness. • (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
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Gloomy, sad, depressed etc.
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Drear (drēr)
adjective [ See
Dreary .] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. 'A
drear and dying sound.'
Milton. Found on
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Drear noun Sadness; dismalness. [ Obsolete]
Spenser. Found on
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