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Meaning of 'drab' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Drab [ a.]
- Of a color between gray and brown.
2 . Drab [ n.]
- A low, sluttish woman.
- A lewd wench; a strumpet.
- A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
- A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
- A drab color.
3 . Drab [ v. i.]
- To associate with strumpets; to wench.

Meaning of 'drab' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . drab [ s]
Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
  • a blue day;
  • a dark gloomy day;
  • a disconsolate winter landscape;
  • a week of rainy depressing weather;
  • grim rainy weather;
  • the dark days of the war;
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (2):
- lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Example in sentence:
  • a series of dreary dinner parties;
  • her drab personality;
  • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
Meaning (3):
- lacking brightness or color; dull
Example in sentence:
  • children in somber brown clothes;
  • drab faded curtains;
  • sober Puritan grey

Nearby Words:

drabbed drabber drabbet drabbing drabbish drabble drabble-tail drabbled drabbler drabbling

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