'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
  • Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]