drab

[Drab]

Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing: These adjectives capture the sense of drab, whether the word is used to describe a muted color, a miserable mood, or an oppressively boring existence.

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A low, sluttish woman.

Adjective S.
depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

Adjective S.
lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"

Adjective S.
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"


n.
A low, sluttish woman.

n.
A lewd wench; a strumpet.

n.
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

v. i.
To associate with strumpets; to wench.

n.
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

n.
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

a.
Of a color between gray and brown.

n.
A drab color.


Drab

Drab , 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. 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

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

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. 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab

Drab, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

A low, sluttish woman.

To associate with strumpets; to wench.

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

Of a color between gray and brown.

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Usage Examples

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

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