Drear vs Lamentable - What's the difference?
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(poetic) Dreary.
* 1794, , lines 1-2
* 1874 ,
* 1922 , , XXVIII, lines 1-2
(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 .
Drear is a related term of lamentable.
As adjectives the difference between drear and lamentable
is that drear is (poetic) dreary while lamentable is causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.As a noun drear
is (obsolete) gloom; sadness.drear
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear ,
- I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
Of desolation I had seen and heard
In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:
- Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
And fall of eve is drear ,
