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Adjective: drab (drabber,drabbest)  drab
  1. Lacking in liveliness, charm or surprise
    "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas";
    - dreary
     
  2. Lacking brightness or colour; dull
    "drab faded curtains";
    - sober, somber [US], sombre [Brit, Cdn]
     
  3. Of a light brownish green colour
    - olive-drab
     
  4. Causing dejection
    "a drab day";
    - blue [informal], dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drear, dreary
Noun: drab  drab
  1. A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
    - olive drab

Derived forms: drabs, drabber, drabbest

See also: cheerless, chromatic, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], depressing, dull, hebetudinous [rare], uncheerful

Type of: olive

Encyclopedia: Drab