Gloomy, in poetry
The crossword clue "Gloomy, in poetry" is answered by DREAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DREAR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DREAR answer page.
Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DREAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by DREAR, most used first.
- Gloomy - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
- Bleak, to Blake - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Dismal - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
- Bleak, in verse - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Cheerless - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
- Dismal, to Donne - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Gloomy, poetically - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Gloomy, to poets - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Bleak - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Gloomy, in verse - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Gloomy, to Keats - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Muse of poetry - ERATO, used 178 times
- Poetry Muse - ERATO, used 94 times
- Muse of love poetry - ERATO, used 77 times
- Muse of lyric poetry - ERATO, used 77 times
- Love poetry Muse - ERATO, used 29 times
- Poetry - VERSE, used 21 times
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