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The Clue
Poetically grim (5 letter answer)
The Answer
DREAR
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Notes
The answer DREAR is common and appears about once every 325 puzzles.
Related Clues
Bleak
Cheerless
Dismal
Doleful
Gloomy
Bleak, to Blake
Bleak, in poems
Bleak, in verse
Cheerless, to Keats
Dismal, to Donne
Dismal, to Dylan
Dismal, to Keats
Dismal, in poetry
Dismal, to poets
Doleful, to poets
Dull, in poetry
Gloomy, to a bard
Gloomy, to Goldsmith
Gloomy, to Keats
Gloomy, literarily
Gloomy, in poetry
Gloomy, to poets
Gloomy, in verse
Melancholy, to Keats
Melancholy, to Milton
Melancholy, to poets
"How pallid, chill and ___!": Keats
Definition
DREAR as an adjective:
1. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"