What does drab mean?

Definitions for drab
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. olive drab, drabadjective

    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

  2. drab, drearyadjective

    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"

  3. drab, sober, somber, sombreadjective

    lacking brightness or color; dull

    "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

  4. olive-drab, drabadjective

    of a light brownish green color

  5. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

    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"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Drabnoun

    A whore; a strumpet.

    Etymology: drabbe, Saxon, lees.

    That I, the son of a dear father murder’d,
    Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
    And fall a cursing, like a very drab! William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. William Shakespeare.

    Babe,
    Ditch-deliver’d by a drab. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Curs’d be the wretch so venal, and so vain,
    Paltry and proud as drabs in Drury-lane. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. drab

    Drab is an adjective that describes something that is dull, plain, boring, or lacking brightness or interest; cheerlessly ordinary. It can refer to color, appearance, or character. It can also be used as a noun to describe a dull light brown color.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Drabnoun

    a low, sluttish woman

  2. Drabnoun

    a lewd wench; a strumpet

  3. Drabnoun

    a wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans

  4. Drabverb

    to associate with strumpets; to wench

  5. Drabnoun

    a kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth

  6. Drabnoun

    a dull brownish yellow or dull gray color

  7. Drabadjective

    of a color between gray and brown

  8. Drabnoun

    a drab color

  9. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Drab

    drab, n. a low, sluttish woman: a whore.—v.i. to associate with bad women.—ns. Drab′ber, one who herds with drabs; Drab′biness.—adjs. Drab′bish, Drab′by, sluttish. [Celt.; Gael. drabag; Ir. drabog, slut.]

  2. Drab

    drab, n. thick, strong, gray cloth: a gray or dull-brown colour, perh. from the muddy colour of undyed wool. [Fr. drap, cloth—Low L. drappus, prob. Teut.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DRAB

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drab is ranked #45804 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Drab surname appeared 466 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Drab.

    93.7% or 437 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.1% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drab in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of drab in a Sentence

  1. Douglas MacArthur:

    The Long Gray Line has never failed us, were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words :' Duty, honor, country.'.

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