drearihead en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English dreryhed; equivalent to dreary + -head (“hood”).
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) sadness; dreariness
suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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Synonyms
woefare · unhappiness · melancholy · drearihead · dejection · prosternation · undelight · heartsore · mourn · crestfallenness · rue · wretchedness · distress · ruth · ill-being · depression · grief · unhappiness · tristesse · melancholia · sadness · regret · misery · despondency · dolefulness · infelicity · melancholy · woe · mishappiness · blueness · forlornness · sorrowfulness · blues · downheartedness · tristfulness · sorrow · melancholia · mirthless