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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown;
[syn: olive drab, drab]


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
- Example: "her drab personality"
- Example: "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
- Example: "a series of dreary dinner parties"
[syn: drab, dreary]

2. lacking brightness or color; dull;
- Example: "drab faded curtains"
- Example: "sober Puritan grey"
- Example: "children in somber brown clothes"
[syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]

3. of a light brownish green color;
[syn: olive-drab, drab]

4. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drab \Drab\, a.
   Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), 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.
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   2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.
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   3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
      taken out of the boiling pans.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Drabbing.]
   To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drab \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.
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   2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

drab
    adj 1: 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" [syn: drab, dreary]
    2: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
       "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
       [syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]
    3: of a light brownish green color [syn: olive-drab, drab]
    4: 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" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
    n 1: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn:
         olive drab, drab]