DRAB

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


Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Adjective

drab (comparative drabber, )

Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.

Etymology 2

Noun

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

Verb

drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)

(intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

Etymology 3

Noun

drab (plural drabs)

A small amount, especially of money.

Etymology 4

Noun

drab (plural drabs)

A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

Anagrams

• 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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