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Adjective: drab (drabber,drabbest)  drab
  1. Lacking in liveliness or 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
    - blue, 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: drabber, drabs, drabbest

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

Type of: olive

Encyclopedia: Drab