Definitions for: Drab

[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
[adj] lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[adj] 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: Drab, n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab,
drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag
a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.]
1. A low, sluttish woman. --King.

2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.

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

Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.

Drab, n. [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.]
1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish
yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

Synonyms: cheerless, colorless, colourless, dingy, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, gloomy, sober, somber, sombre, sorry, uncheerful

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