drab (n.)

  1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

    [ Syn: olive drab ]

    drab (adj.)

  1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; her drab personality; life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas; a series of dreary dinner parties

    [ Syn: dreary ]

  2. lacking brightness or color; dull; drab faded curtains; sober Puritan grey; children in somber brown clothes

    [ Syn: sober , somber , sombre ]

  3. of a light brownish green color

    [ Syn: olive-drab ]

  4. causing dejection; a blue day; the dark days of the war; a week of rainy depressing weather; a disconsolate winter landscape; the first dismal dispiriting days of November; a dark gloomy day; grim rainy weather

    [ Syn: blue , dark , dingy , disconsolate , dismal , gloomy , grim , sorry , drear , dreary ]

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