drab English

Meaning drab meaning

What does drab mean?

drab

— adjective (= dreary) 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

— adjective (= sober, somber, sombre) lacking brightness or color; dull drab faded curtains sober Puritan grey children in somber brown clothes

— adjective (= olive-drab) of a light brownish green color

— noun (= olive drab) a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

— adjective (= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim) 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 drab synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as drab?

drab English » English

dull

dreary

grey

drear

uninteresting

grim

boring

tedious

dismal

disconsolate

dark

colorless

unlikable

unenlivened

unappealing

stodgy

sorry

sombre

somber

sober

slattern

olive-drab

olive drab

humdrum

gloomy

filthy

dirty

dingy

blue

yearning

weary

wearisome

washy

wan

unwished-for

unwished

unwelcome

untoward

unsympathetic

unsweet

unstimulating

unlikeable

uniformity

unhappy

unexciting

uncool

unattractive

unappetizing

unappetising

unanimated

Topics drab topics

What do people use drab to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

• What words describe a place that is uninteresting
  dead one-horse town nothing ever happens drab featureless dreary

States Quality Light

Color

• What words describe something that is a dull color?
  dull faded washed out drab dingy flushed clouded grayish somber