Definition
Meaning of 'drab'
Meaning of 'drab' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Drab 
[ a.]
- Of a color between gray and brown. [ a.]2. Drab [ n.]
- A low, sluttish woman. [ n.]- 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. [ v. i.]Meaning of 'drab' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. drab [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
- 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 brightness or color; dull
- lacking brightness or color; dull
Example in sentence:
- children in somber brown clothes;
- drab faded curtains;
- sober Puritan grey
Meaning (3):
- lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- 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
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