drab[adjective]Synonyms: dull, dingy, dismal, dreary, flat, gloomy, shabby, sombre
Contrasted words: bright, brilliant, luminous
Related Words: bleak,
desolate,
dismal,
dispiriting,
dreary,
dingy,
faded [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
drab /dræb/
adjective[
Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: drab '(dull-colored) cloth' (16-18 centuries), from Old French drap 'cloth']
1. not bright in colour, especially in a way that stops you from feeling cheerful
Synonym : dull:
The walls were painted a drab green.2. boring
Synonym : dull:
people forced to live grey, drab existences in ugly towns—drabness noun [uncountable] ⇒
dribs and drabs [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲