Definition of 'drab'

Noun

1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
      Synonyms: olive drab

Adjective

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"
      Synonyms: dreary
2. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
      Synonyms: sober somber sombre
3. of a light brownish green color
      Synonyms: 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"
      Synonyms: blue dark depressing dingy disconsolate dismal dispiriting gloomy grim sorry drear dreary

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