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Definition of 'drab'

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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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