Word Meanings - DREAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.

Related words: (words related to DREAR)

• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DREAR
  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
• DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
  Difficulty in swallowing.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• DYSODILE
  An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• DYNASTIC
  Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings. Motley.
• DYNAMIC; DYNAMICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau.
• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• DYEHOUSE
  A building in which dyeing is carried on.
• DYSLOGISTIC
  Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic. There is no course of conduct for which dyslogistic or eulogistic epithets may be found. J. F. Stephen. The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged
• DISMAL
  dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
• DYSPNOIC
  Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspn
• DYNAMITER
  One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• DYSAESTHESIA
  Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.
• DYSCRASIA
  An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
• TODDY
  1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
• LARDY
  Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• DEEDY
  Industrious; active. Cowper.
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• UNBODY
  To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.
• KIDDYISH
  Frolicsome; sportive.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• EPIDIDYMITIS
  Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DIDYM
  See DIDYMIUM
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• WEEDY
  1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies." Shak. 2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant. 3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.