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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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Thesaurus Results for drab:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bag, bat, bawd, beige, beldam, biddy, bleak, boring, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, cheerless, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colorless, crone, cruiser, dead, deadened, desolate, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, dowdy, dreary, dull, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, faded, fawn, fawn-colored, fille de joie, flat, fuscous, gray, grege, grey, hag, harlot, hazel, hooker, humdrum, hustler, khaki, lackluster, lifeless, lurid, lusterless, mat, monotonous, muddy, murky, nightwalker, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, prosaic, prosy, repetitive, same, samely, seal, seal-brown, sepia, slut, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, streetwalker, subfusc, tan, taupe, tawny, tedious, toast, toast-brown, traipse, trot, umber, umber-colored, unrelieved, walnut, walnut-brown, wan, whore, witch, yellowish-brown

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