What is another word for drab?
904 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɹˈab], [ dɹˈab], [ d_ɹ_ˈa_b]
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Similar words for drab:
- all (adjective)
- arid (adjective)
- boring (adjective)
- brown (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- colorless (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- dowdy (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- flat (adjective)
- flat, dull to senses (adjective)
- frumpish (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- gray (adjective)
- gray/grey (adjective)
- humdrum (adjective)
- indistinctive (adjective)
- insipid (adjective)
- lackluster (adjective)
- leaden (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- neutral (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- sober (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- stale (adjective)
- tedious (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- unsightly (adjective)
- weariful (adjective)
- attribute (noun)
- colourless (noun)
- dismal (noun)
- drab (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- tan (noun)
- tan (noun, adjective)
- other synonyms
- dun
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Drab:
adj.
• all (adjective)- drab.
- commonplace,
- stuffy,
- cloying,
- routine,
- stereotyped,
- ho hum,
- moth-eaten,
- Weariful,
- platitudinous,
- interminable,
- Irksome,
- threadbare,
- bummer,
- tame,
- unvaried,
- nowhere,
- stupid,
- tiresome,
- trite,
- plebeian,
- mundane,
- tiring,
- characterless,
- dragger,
- bromidic,
- drudging,
- nothing,
- well-worn,
- monotonous,
- repetitious.
- bister,
- auburn,
- chocolate,
- mahogany,
- acorn,
- brick,
- tawny,
- chestnut,
- terra-cotta,
- dun,
- Bricker,
- khaki,
- nut brown,
- ochre,
- Cafe Au Lait,
- russet,
- fawn,
- sepia,
- fawner,
- burnt almond,
- snuff-colored,
- copper,
- toaster,
- partridge,
- puce,
- dust,
- amber,
- brunette,
- sorrel,
- cocoa,
- henna,
- bayer,
- coffee,
- duster,
- hazel,
- toast,
- terracotta,
- cinnamon,
- rust,
- burnt sienna,
- coconut,
- nut,
- ecru,
- terra cotta,
- buff,
- Nut-brown,
- ginger,
- walnut,
- bronze,
- ruster,
- bay,
- beige,
- umber.
- comfortless,
- miserable,
- blue,
- joyless,
- melancholy,
- woeful,
- disconsolate,
- in the dumps,
- funereal,
- depressed,
- wintry,
- oppressive,
- black,
- mournful,
- tenebrific,
- forlorn,
- woebegone,
- sad,
- sullen,
- grim,
- dispiriting,
- sorrowful,
- Dejecting,
- mopey,
- austere,
- dejected,
- dolorous,
- uncomfortable,
- despondent,
- jarring.
- cloudy,
- Atramentous,
- crepuscular,
- doleful,
- sinister,
- foreboding,
- morose,
- foggy,
- opaque,
- shady,
- inky,
- blackish,
- pitch-black,
- morbid,
- clouded,
- dusk,
- obscure,
- pitch-dark,
- sunless,
- fainter,
- nebulous,
- unlit,
- darkened,
- unpropitious,
- pitch dark,
- shadowy,
- overcast,
- tenebrous,
- dusky,
- aphotic,
- indistinct,
- pitchy,
- ill-lighted,
- pitch black,
- stygian,
- vague,
- unlighted,
- rayless,
- grimy,
- misty,
- cimmerian,
- caliginous,
- sooty,
- ominous,
- faint,
- lightless,
- obfuscous,
- shaded.
- tacky,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- tasteless,
- scrubby,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- bygone,
- plain,
- unkempt,
- unseemly,
- vintage,
- dated,
- old hat,
- homely,
- moldy,
- baggy,
- archaic,
- untidy,
- bedraggled,
- antiquated,
- out-of-date,
- wrinkled,
- unfashionable,
- frowzy.
- gloomy,
- grungy,
- shabby,
- subfuse,
- faded,
- vapid,
- muddy,
- unchanging,
- same,
- run-down,
- somber,
- bleak,
- desolate.
- dis-heartening,
- dis heartening,
- more saddening,
- more disheartening,
- most disheartening,
- most acherontic,
- more acherontic,
- most acheronian,
- most saddening,
- more acheronian.
- dapple-gray,
- ashen,
- taupe,
- lead-gray,
- salt-and-pepper,
- mousy,
- iron-gray,
- pearl-gray,
- smoky,
- grizzled,
- pearly,
- battleship-gray,
- gun metal,
- neutral-tint,
- mole-gray.
- more oyster,
- more granite,
- more heather,
- more powder,
- more dove,
- stonest,
- more battleship,
- leadest,
- more cinereal,
- most cinereal,
- most dove,
- most heather,
- more silvered,
- most powder,
- most silvered,
- most silvery,
- stoner,
- slater,
- most granite,
- ashest,
- granite,
- slatest,
- most oyster,
- most battleship,
- more silvery.
- mono-tone,
- most monotone,
- more plodding,
- more treadmill,
- most treadmill,
- gardenvariety,
- most white bread,
- more white-bread,
- most plodding,
- more toneless,
- mono tone,
- dime dozen,
- most toneless,
- more banausic,
- more monotone,
- most white-bread,
- more white bread,
- most banausic.
- in-sipid,
- more hohum,
- wishy washy,
- more ho-hum,
- most ho-hum,
- most driveling,
- un imaginative,
- more ho hum,
- wishy-washy,
- wishywashy,
- more nebbish,
- most nebbish,
- most ho hum,
- un-imaginative,
- in sipid,
- most hohum,
- more driveling.
- bluegray,
- pewter,
- most bluegray,
- most blue gray,
- most blue-gray,
- more pewter,
- more bluegray,
- more blue gray,
- most pewter,
- more blue-gray.
- more nubilous,
- un cleaner,
- un-cleaner,
- most glowering,
- most nubilous,
- more glowering,
- un-cleanest,
- un clean,
- un cleanest.
- cliched,
- sober,
- big yawn,
- poorly dressed,
- Drearisome,
- gray,
- heather,
- wornout,
- dreary,
- colorless,
- dingy,
- unprepossessing,
- sombre,
- blowsy,
- humdrum,
- boring,
- Asher,
- draggy,
- dowdy,
- old fashioned,
- Proser,
- acheronian,
- out-dated,
- like a dinosaur,
- depressive,
- lusterless,
- dark,
- badly dressed,
- leaden,
- dull as dishwater,
- stale,
- broken down,
- unsightly,
- cinereal,
- darkish,
- unanimated,
- cheerless,
- Indistinctive,
- unshapely,
- silvery,
- acherontic,
- frumpy,
- tedious,
- frumpish,
- laid back,
- garden variety,
- white-bread,
- unenjoyable,
- matter of fact,
- oldfashioned,
- blue-gray,
- workaday,
- uninteresting,
- oyster,
- toneless,
- Nubilous,
- hohum,
- Silvered,
- lackluster,
- uninspiring,
- slatternly,
- zestless,
- banausic,
- white bread,
- out of date,
- brown,
- ho-hum,
- flat,
- drear,
- unstylish,
- murky.
- more uninspiring,
- more workaday,
- prosest,
- yawnest,
- diddliest,
- un-exceptional,
- most uninspiring,
- un inspiring,
- most workaday,
- un-inspiring,
- un exceptional,
- yawner,
- diddlier.
- yester-day's,
- more zestless,
- yester-days,
- more cliche-ridden,
- cliche-ridden,
- un-original,
- yester day,
- most zestless,
- yester day's,
- fusty,
- yesterday's,
- more cliche ridden,
- most cliche ridden,
- timeworn,
- yester days,
- cliche ridden,
- like dinosaur,
- yester-day,
- more cliche,
- most cliche,
- most cliche-ridden,
- yesterday,
- un original.
- more unenjoyable,
- un interesting,
- most unenjoyable,
- un entertaining,
- un enjoyable,
- un-interesting,
- unentertaining,
- un-enjoyable,
- most unentertaining,
- un-entertaining,
- more unentertaining.
- dis-agreeable,
- un-sightlier,
- un shapely,
- un-sightliest,
- un sightly,
- more unprepossessing,
- un shapelier,
- un-pleasant,
- un pleasant,
- un-attractive,
- most unprepossessing,
- un sightlier,
- un-shapeliest,
- unshapelier,
- un prepossessing,
- un-prepossessing,
- un sightliest,
- un-shapelier,
- unshapeliest,
- dis agreeable,
- un-sightly,
- un-shapely,
- un attractive,
- de-formed,
- un shapeliest,
- de formed.
n.
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- unexciting,
- trivial.
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- colors.
- drabs,
- suntans,
- biscuits,
- browns,
- Khakis,
- olive brown,
- olives,
- saddler,
- bronzes,
- tawnies,
- leather-colored,
- brownishes,
- sand,
- yellowishes,
- sands,
- suntan,
- creamer,
- brownish,
- olive-brown,
- olive,
- biscuit,
- tan,
- umbers,
- naturals,
- sander.
- most olive,
- more leathercolored,
- more olive-brown,
- leathercoloreds,
- most leather colored,
- more brownish,
- most leathercolored,
- more leather-colored,
- more olive,
- saddlest,
- leathercolored,
- more olivebrown,
- leather coloreds,
- most leather-colored,
- most brownish,
- olive-browns,
- leather colored,
- olive browns,
- olivebrowns,
- creamest,
- most suntan,
- more suntan,
- more leather colored,
- most olive brown,
- olivebrown,
- most olive-brown,
- leather-coloreds,
- most biscuit.
n. & a.
• tan (noun, adjective)Other synonyms:
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- aseptic.
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- uninspired,
- stodgy,
- pedestrian,
- earthbound.
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- flavorless,
- unimaginative,
- spiritless,
- dim,
- prosaic.
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- lifeless.
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- dry.
- grey.
- boringly,
- courtesan,
- nymphet,
- dry-as-dust,
- unostentatious,
- wearying,
- Flyspeck,
- bit,
- floozy,
- run-of-the-mill,
- muddied,
- gloomily,
- deadened,
- Slammerkin,
- automaton-like,
- sadly,
- inexorable,
- lacklustre,
- gamey,
- deplorable,
- streetwalker,
- repetitive,
- grisly,
- bad woman,
- drably,
- endless,
- unending,
- nag,
- automatic,
- coppery,
- draggletail,
- Cantlet,
- repressed,
- tittle,
- crone,
- floozie,
- trollop,
- aristocratic,
- monotonously,
- mite,
- whit,
- contrite,
- hazy,
- frail,
- slob,
- sick,
- two-dimensional,
- harridan,
- saturnine,
- brownish yellow,
- tart,
- mote,
- hussy,
- cantle,
- mat,
- soiled,
- good-for-nothing,
- beldam,
- subdued,
- saddening,
- dram,
- blah,
- harlot,
- virago,
- laborious,
- brunet,
- unrelenting,
- pittance,
- nondescript,
- bitch,
- risque,
- woman,
- fuscous,
- sweep,
- prostitute,
- grubby,
- lurid,
- traipse,
- thick,
- nightwalker,
- remorseful,
- sloven,
- slattern,
- pig,
- drearily,
- glooming,
- glazed,
- smidgen,
- glum,
- ordinary,
- schlep,
- fornicatress,
- indeterminate,
- mechanical,
- blurred,
- scantling,
- doxy,
- hair,
- stern,
- scruple,
- scrub,
- hustler,
- bimbo,
- Malkin,
- iota,
- blurry,
- Demirep,
- unpromising,
- Jading,
- mudlark,
- pitying,
- achromatic,
- nymphomaniac,
- Fawn-colored,
- pro,
- bad,
- unembellished,
- meritless,
- unappeasable,
- monochromatic,
- Trull,
- stark,
- dot,
- wanton,
- dole,
- raunchy,
- grave,
- over-long,
- coffee-brown,
- Grisette,
- bleakly,
- brownish-grey,
- tanned,
- pale,
- dab,
- Slubberdegullion,
- mind-numbing,
- no-count,
- olive-drab,
- termagant,
- shrew,
- sapphist,
- prolonged,
- hooter,
- Undistinctive,
- Hooker,
- long-winded,
- zero,
- unbecoming,
- Subfuscous,
- hoot,
- unremarkable,
- dead,
- Fatiguing,
- unstimulating,
- frump,
- naughty,
- bland,
- pitiful,
- tediously,
- glassy,
- go down,
- Chippy,
- common,
- trot,
- unexceptional,
- strumpet,
- wearing,
- wan,
- begrimed,
- serious,
- Advoutress,
- spartan,
- distressing,
- soporific,
- biddy,
- subfusc,
- demimonde,
- solemn,
- unvarying,
- pessimistic,
- exhausting,
- jezebel,
- sulky,
- dustman,
- gentle,
- little bit,
- slummock,
- ace,
- cruiser,
- sedate,
- seal,
- piece,
- unfortunate,
- unclassifiable,
- vixen,
- Dight,
- regretful,
- gobbet,
- little,
- uninviting,
- bag,
- samely,
- blue-blooded,
- dully,
- rig,
- benighted,
- moody,
- miss,
- unchaste,
- namby-pamby,
- bawd,
- bare,
- punk,
- jot,
- cocotte,
- lustreless,
- messy,
- indistinguishable,
- unadorned,
- long-drawn-out,
- battle-axe,
- mousey,
- alley cat,
- swine,
- pickup,
- dusty,
- gruesome,
- particle,
- banal,
- bluish,
- tomato,
- Quean,
- unclassified,
- dense,
- aristocratical,
- greyish brown,
- dismally,
- baggage,
- blueish,
- working girl,
- indefinite,
- yellowish brown,
- girl,
- call-girl,
- beast,
- witch,
- pigment,
- unrelieved,
- wench,
- darkening,
- slut,
- skit,
- fallen woman,
- old bag,
- simple,
- basic,
- discoloured,
- give way,
- Grege,
- vacuous,
- adulteress,
- Seal-brown,
- grey-brown,
- good-for-naught,
- grimly,
- Scrimption,
- fatigue,
- unvarnished,
- color,
- smudgy,
- everyday,
- hag,
- lamentable,
- bat,
- dreadfully,
- fleck,
- broad,
- ennui,
- changeless,
- quiet,
- Mopsy,
- tiresomely,
- indescribable,
- slow,
- monotony,
- Draggle-tail,
- point,
- dour,
- monotone,
- whore,
- tramp,
- minx,
- smidge,
- loose woman,
- glowering,
- livid,
- chromatic,
- Lorette,
- forbidding,
- matted,
- depressing,
- cold,
- ruthful,
- jade,
- undecorated,
- snitch.
How to use "Drab" in context?
There is no one word that can perfectly define the adjective "drab." It can be used to describe anything from clothes to a room, but in general, "drab" describes items or places that are basic, unimpressive, and somewhat boring. Depending on the context, "drab" can also have a negative or positive connotation. For example, a drab office could be a depressing place to work, while a drab outfit can be fashionable and stylish.
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Adjective
disagreeable, dull, lacklustre, uninspiring.
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Adjective
Homophones for Drab:
- deathtrap, dead drop, derive, DARPA, dewdrop, daraf, drive up, drape, drive away, drupe, drub, Drib, derv, diatribe, drive, dwarf, driveway, drippy, drive off, drove, derby, date rape, draw off, draw up, droopy, drop by, drip, drop, drop-off, draba, drop away, drop off, dry up, droop.
Hyponym for Drab:
n.
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attribute
olive.
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