drearihead

English

Etymology

From Middle English dreryhed; equivalent to dreary +‎ -head (“hood”).

Noun

drearihead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) sadness; dreariness

   Synonyms: melancholia, melancholy, unhappiness; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd

Related terms

• drearihood