drear

英語

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/dɹɪə/

• （英國南部）音頻

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/dɹɪɚ/, /dɹɪɹ/
• 韻部：-ɪə(ɹ), -ɪɹ

詞源 1

略自dreary。

形容詞

drear (比較級 drearer，最高級 drearest)

1. (詩歌，書面) dreary之同義詞
   • 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, [...]

詞源 2

dreary 的逆構詞。

名詞

drear (複數 drears)

1. (棄用) 悲傷，陰鬱
   • 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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異序詞

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