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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, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drear, dreary

1. A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
   - olive drab

Derived forms: drabbest, drabs, drabber

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

Type of: olive

Encyclopedia: Drab