'Drab' definitions:
Definition of 'drab'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: drab, dreary]
adjective
Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" [syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]
adjective
Of a light brownish green color [syn: olive-drab, drab]
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" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
noun
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn: olive drab, drab]
Definition of 'Drab'
From: GCIDE
- Drab \Drab\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drab'
From: GCIDE
- Drab \Drab\, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drab'
From: GCIDE
- Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drab'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'drab'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bag,
- bat,
- bawd,
- beige,
- beldam,
- biddy,
- bleak,
- boring,
- brown,
- brownish,
- brownish-yellow,
- brunet,
- cheerless,
- chocolate,
- cinnamon,
- cocoa,
- cocoa-brown,
- coffee,
- coffee-brown,
- colorless,
- crone,
- cruiser,
- dead,
- deadened,
- desolate,
- dingy,
- dismal,
- dispiriting,
- dowdy,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dun,
- dun-brown,
- dun-drab,
- ecru,
- faded,
- fawn,
- fawn-colored,
- fille de joie,
- flat,
- fuscous,
- gray,
- grege,
- grey,
- hag,
- harlot,
- hazel,
- hooker,
- humdrum,
- hustler,
- khaki,
- lackluster,
- lifeless,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- monotonous,
- muddy,
- murky,
- nightwalker,
- nut-brown,
- olive-brown,
- olive-drab,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- repetitive,
- same,
- samely,
- seal,
- seal-brown,
- sepia,
- slut,
- snuff-colored,
- somber,
- sorrel,
- streetwalker,
- subfusc,
- tan,
- taupe,
- tawny,
- tedious,
- toast,
- toast-brown,
- traipse,
- trot,
- umber,
- umber-colored,
- unrelieved,
- walnut,
- walnut-brown,
- wan,
- whore,
- witch,
- yellowish-brown