Definition of drab

Overview of noun drab

The noun drab has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. olive drab, drab

(a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown)

Overview of adj drab

The adj drab has 4 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (2) drab, dreary

(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")

2. (1) drab, sober, somber, sombre

(lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes")

3. olive-drab, drab

(of a light brownish green color)

4. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

(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")