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drab
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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
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adjective
(= sober, somber, sombre)
lacking brightness or color; dull
drab faded curtains
sober Puritan grey
children in somber brown clothes
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adjective
(= olive-drab)
of a light brownish green color
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noun
(= olive drab)
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
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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
looper
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noun
(= measuring worm)
small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae