Drab

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
  • adj. Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
  • adj. Faded and dull in appearance.
  • adj. Dull or commonplace in character; dreary: a drab personality. See Synonyms at dull.
  • n. A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
  • n. Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
  • n. A slattern.
  • n. A woman prostitute.
  • verb-intransitive. To consort with prostitutes: "Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs” ( Stanislaus Joyce).
  • n. A negligible amount: finished the work in dribs and drabs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee.
  • n. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  • adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
  • n. A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
  • n. A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
  • v. To consort with prostitutes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A low, sluttish woman.
  • n. A lewd wench; a strumpet.
  • n. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  • verb-intransitive. To associate with strumpets; to wench.
  • n. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
  • n. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
  • adj. Of a color between gray and brown.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A slut; a slattern.
  • n. A strumpet; a prostitute.
  • To associate with strumpets.
  • n. A thick woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color.
  • n. A yellowish-gray tint.
  • Of a yellowish-gray color, like the cloth so called.
  • n. A kind of wooden box used in salt-works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling-pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining, that the water may drain off.
  • n. An English collectors' name for a number of noctuid moths of a drab color: as, the clouded drab, Tæniocampa instabilis; the northern drab, T. opima; the lead-colored drab, T. populeti.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
  • adj. of a light brownish green color
  • adj. lacking brightness or color; dull
  • adj. causing dejection
  • n. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  • Equivalent
    dull    chromatic    colorless    colourless    depressing    cheerless    uncheerful   
    Verb Form
    drabbed    drabbing    drabs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    olive   
    Variant
    drabber    drabbest    drabbing    drabbed    drabcloth   
    Form
    drabbed    drabbing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    strumpet    wench    dun    brownish    yellow    yellowish gray    drabcloth    promiscuous woman    prostitute   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab    Bab    Crab    Crabbe    Fab    Lab    Mab    Rabb    ab    cab   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dingy    woolen    tattered    khaki    nondescript    grey    shapeless    dreary    maroon    dusty