blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) 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”
drab, olive-drab
(adjective) of a light brownish green color
drab, sober, somber, sombre
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull; “drab faded curtains”; “sober Puritan grey”; “children in somber brown clothes”
drab, dreary
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drab (countable and uncountable, plural drabs) (also, attributively)
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
Synonym: drabcloth
The colour of this fabric.
Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
drab (comparative drabber, )
Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
drab (plural drabs)
(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
Synonyms: Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:prostitute
drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)
(intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
drab (plural drabs)
A small amount, especially of money.
drab (plural drabs)
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• Bard, Brad, bard, brad, darb
Source: Wiktionary
Drab, n. Etym: [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.]
1. A low, sluttish woman. King.
2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.
3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.]
Definition: To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl.
Drab, n. Etym: [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. Drape, Trappings.]
1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Drab, a.
Definition: Of a color between gray and brown.
– n.
Definition: A drab color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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