Difference between Dismal and Drear

DISMAL vs DREAR: NOUN

The devil.
A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.
Plural Mourning-garments.
Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
See extract and etymology.
Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.

Causing dejection
Causing gloom or depression; dreary.
Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit.
Dreadful; disastrous.
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
Disappointingly inadequate.
Gloomy and bleak.
Depressing.
Depressing in character or appearance

To feel dismal or melancholy.
Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

Stygian, Wintry, Twilit, Comfortless, Melancholy, Dreich, Gloom, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dismal, Dingy, Gloomy, Drab, Cheerless, Dreary

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

Stygian, Wintry, Twilit, Comfortless, Melancholy, Dreich, Gloom, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dismal, Dingy, Gloomy, Drab, Cheerless, Dreary

So Whatevoked this sense of a dismal tide.
The success rate for second marriages is dismal.
Outside the Church, we are in dismal straights.
The bank rates a dismal F on BBB.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is a paved, heavily wooded pathway along the eastern border of Dismal Swamp State Park.
Dismal Swamp, it made me feel very dismal as I looked at it.
Undue inducements and reasonable risks: Will the dismal science lead to dismal research ethics?
Word of the Day: Dismal Dismal adj Gloomy.
Dismal, but not utterly dismal, is still dismal in my book.

Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening inights of the whole drear month of November.
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
The sins of manhood follow upon those of adolescence with drear inevitability.
Despite the drear weather lately, the deck decor is coming together!
That the Lord is near, when my path is drear, For.
So deep, so drear a woe to me!
Anybody may reduce earth to a desert drear for himself; but this is quite another matter.
Or what drear comet spreads infectious fires, And seals the lips, that poetry inspires?
Grey London is our own Victorian England, drear, industrial, and devoid of magic.
Winter cold and drear holds no sway over this soulful combination.