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Drear vs Grievous - What's the difference?

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Drear is a related term of grievous.


As adjectives the difference between drear and grievous

is that drear is (poetic) dreary while grievous is causing grief, pain or sorrow.

As a noun drear

is (obsolete) gloom; sadness.

drear

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (poetic) Dreary.
  • * 1794, , lines 1-2
    • Earth raised up her head
    From the darkness dread and drear ,
  • * 1874 ,
    • I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
    Of desolation I had seen and heard
    In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:
  • * 1922 , , XXVIII, lines 1-2
    • Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
    And fall of eve is drear ,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.2:
  • *: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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    grievous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * greuous (obsolete) * grievious (less common outside dialects)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
  • * 1883 ,
    • As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.
  • Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

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