drear

英语

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /dɹɪə/

• （英国南部）音频：

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

词源 1

略自dreary。

形容词

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, [...]

词源 2

dreary 的逆構詞。

名词

drear (複數 drears)

1. (棄用) 悲伤，阴郁
   • 1596，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，「Book VI, Canto II」，收錄於仙后（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