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Textual thesaurus for "drab"

(adj) gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue

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


(adj) olive-drab

of a light brownish green color


(adj) sober, somber, sombre

lacking brightness or color; dull

drab faded curtains; sober Puritan grey; children in somber brown clothes


(adj) 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


(noun) olive drab

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown