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: drab ]

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 , drab , drear ]