drear

英语

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/dɹɪə/

• （英国南部）音频

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• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/dɹɪɚ/, /dɹɪɹ/
• 韵部：-ɪə(ɹ), -ɪɹ

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略自dreary。

形容词

drear (比较级 drearer，最高级 drearest)

1. (诗歌，书面) dreary之同义词
   • 1794, William Blake, Earth's Answer, lines 1-2

     Earth raised up her head
     From the darkness dread and drear,

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:

     I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
     Of desolation I had seen and heard
     In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:

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   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XXVIII, lines 1-2

     Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
     And fall of eve is drear, [...]

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dreary 的逆构词。

名词

drear (复数 drears)

1. (弃用) 悲伤，阴郁
   • 1596, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book VI, Canto II”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.

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异序词

• Rader, arder, arred, darer, rared, rear'd, reard