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Mournful vs Drear - What's the difference?

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Mournful is a related term of drear.


As adjectives the difference between mournful and drear

is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while drear is (poetic) dreary.

As a noun drear is

(obsolete) gloom; sadness.

mournful

English

Alternative forms

* mournfull

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  • Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
  • * (Edgar Allan Poe)
    • Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.

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    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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