Grim (4)
'grim' is the definition.
(I know that grim can be written as drear)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for drear that I've seen before include "Morose" , "grave" , "Cheerless (literary)" , "Gloomy and cheerless" , "Depressingly dull" .)
(Other definitions for stern that I've seen before include "Grim, strict" , "Harsh at the back of the ship" , "Severe, forbidding" , "Inflexible; back" , "Back end of a ship" .)
'grim' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for bleak that I've seen before include "Desolately barren" , "Austere" , "Unpleasantly cold" , "Dreary; cold, miserable" , "Exposed to the elements" .)
'grim' is the definition.
(I know that grim can be written as dour)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for dour that I've seen before include "Stern and severe looking" , "Grim, uninviting" , "Obstinate - grim" , "Stern and forbidding" , "Of appearance, harsh and forbidding" .)
'grim' is the definition.
(I know that grim can be written as forbidding)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for forbidding that I've seen before include "Grim" , "Banning" , "Ominous" , "sinister" .)