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drab::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | olive drab |
| Type of | olive |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | olive-drab |
drab::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dreary |
| Derivation | drabness |
her drab personality.
life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas.
Examples of drab
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A decade ago, Shanghai was a drab, isolated city stuck in a socialist time warp.
From the businessweek.com
They still come, here and there, and this weekend they're wrapped in olive drab.
From the al.com
No soaring monuments to Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets.
From the time.com
Lightweight, bright and colorful, it is a relief from the dreary drab of winter.
From the newsobserver.com
An AQI reading of 300 blots out the sun, smothering the city in drab uniformity.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The board is a big drab map of Indonesia, divided into a myriad small districts.
From the scienceblogs.com
That means a drab-looking palette of grey shades and a pretty unexciting layout.
From the smh.com.au
The food came in olive-drab cans that seemed to match the flavors sealed inside.
From the time.com
Drab as this existence may sound, it was the essence of Larkin's poetic impulse.
From the time.com
- 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"
- Olive drab: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
- Olive-drab: of a light brownish green color
- Blue: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- (drabness) dowdiness: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
- Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in their surroundings. ...
- A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee or colour; A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans; To consort with prostitutes; Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour
- A young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
