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Definition of 'drab'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) drab
lacking in brightness, spirit, etc.; dull.

2.  drab
of the color drab.

3. (n.) drab
a brownish gray.

4.  drab
fabric of this color, esp. of thick wool or cotton.

5. (n.) drab
a slatternly woman.

6.  drab
a prostitute.

7. (v.i.) drab
to associate with drabs.

Etymology: (1505–15)

Definition of 'drab'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) olive drab, drab
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

2. (adj) drab, dreary
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. (adj) drab, sober, somber, sombre
lacking brightness or color; dull
"drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

4. (adj) olive-drab, drab
of a light brownish green color

5. (adj) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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"

Definition of 'drab'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) drab
of a color between gray and brown

2. (noun) drab
a low, sluttish woman

3. (noun) drab
a lewd wench; a strumpet

4. (noun) drab
a wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans

5. (noun) drab
a kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth

6. (noun) drab
a dull brownish yellow or dull gray color

7. (noun) drab
a drab color

8. (verb) drab
to associate with strumpets; to wench

Translation of 'drab'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: dull and uninteresting, especially in colour drab clothes.
Afrikaans: eentonig	Arabic: دراب: قماش رمادي مُسَمَّر	Bulgarian: сив
Brazilian: insípido	Czech: bezvýrazný, šedivý	German: eintönig
Danish: trist; kedelig	Greek: μουντός, άχαρος (συν. για	Spanish: apagado, soso, sin gracia
Estonian: üksluine	Farsi: بی روح؛ خسته کننده	Finnish: tympeä
French: terne	Hebrew: מְשָעֲמֵם	Hindi: फूहड़ औरत, वेश्या
Croatian: sivosmeđa boja	Hungarian: szürke	Indonesian: tidak ceria
Icelandic: tilbreytingarlaus, litlau	Italian: monotono; incolore, smort	Japanese: さえない
Korean: 충충한	Lithuanian: pilkas, neįdomus	Latvian: vienmuļš; neizteiksmīgs;
Malay: kusam	Dutch: saai	Norwegian: trist, grå, kjedelig, mon
Polish: bezbarwny, nijaki	Persian: بی روح؛ خسته کننده	Pashto: ستړى كوونكى
Portuguese: desbotado	Romanian: cenuşiu, tern	Russian: серый
Slovak: bezvýrazný, sivý	Slovenian: pust (barva)	Serbian: jednoličan
Swedish: trist, enformig, grå	Thai: สีจืดชืด	Turkish: yavan, sıkıcı, kasvetli
Taiwanese: 單調乏味的，無光彩的(尤指顏色)	Ukrainian: нудний, одноманітний	Urdu: بے کیف
Vietnamese: xám xịt	Chinese: 单调乏味的，无生气的
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