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Drab

Drab Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Drab? [adj] 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 [adj] lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes" [adj] 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Drab: cheerless \| colorless \| colourless \| dingy \| dismal \| drear \| dreary \| dull \| gloomy \| sober \| somber \| sombre \| sorry \| uncheerful Related Terms \| Find terms related to Drab: 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 See Also \| Drab In Webster's Dictionary \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\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drabbing}.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl. \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\, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

Drab Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Drab?

[adj] 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
[adj] lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[adj] 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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Drab In Webster's Dictionary

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


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

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