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Meaning of drab

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]


Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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