Definition for Drab:

• A grayish brown color.

Synonyms for Drab:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • drab.
  •arid (adjective)
  • wearisome,
  • insipid,
  • dull.
  •boring (adjective)
  • 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.
  •brown (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •colorless (adjective)
  • washed out,
  • doughier,
  • uncolored,
  • doughy.
  •dark (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dingy (adjective)
  • broken-down,
  • bedimmed,
  • seedy,
  • discolored,
  • tarnished,
  • sullied,
  • dirty,
  • smirched,
  • tired,
  • dilapidated.
  •dowdy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •drab (adjective)
  • gloomy,
  • grungy,
  • shabby,
  • subfuse,
  • faded,
  • vapid,
  • muddy,
  • unchanging,
  • same,
  • run-down,
  • somber,
  • bleak,
  • desolate.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • de-pressing,
  • un eventful,
  • un-eventful,
  • most depressive,
  • de pressing,
  • more depressive.
  •flat (adjective)
  • unpalatable,
  • lead balloon,
  • whitebread,
  • sapless,
  • prosy,
  • matte.
  •flat, dull to senses (adjective)
  • neutral.
  •frumpish (adjective)
  • most styleless,
  • more styleless,
  • styleless.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis heartening,
  • more saddening,
  • more disheartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • most acherontic,
  • more acherontic,
  • most acheronian,
  • most saddening,
  • more acheronian.
  •gray (adjective)
  • 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.
  •gray/grey (adjective)
  • 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.
  •humdrum (adjective)
  • 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.
  •prosaic (adjective)
  • more uninspiring,
  • more workaday,
  • prosest,
  • yawnest,
  • diddliest,
  • un-exceptional,
  • most uninspiring,
  • un inspiring,
  • most workaday,
  • un-inspiring,
  • un exceptional,
  • yawner,
  • diddlier.
  •sober (adjective)
  • disciplined,
  • hardboiled,
  • unimpassioned,
  • Clear-headed,
  • forgoing,
  • no nonsense,
  • low key,
  • unexcited.
  •somber (adjective)
  • more hurting,
  • most sourpuss,
  • most dragged,
  • more dragged,
  • more sourpuss.
  •stale (adjective)
  • 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.
  •tedious (adjective)
  • long drawn out,
  • snoozest,
  • most enervating,
  • snoozer,
  • more enervating.
  •uninteresting (adjective)
  • more unenjoyable,
  • un interesting,
  • most unenjoyable,
  • un entertaining,
  • un enjoyable,
  • un-interesting,
  • unentertaining,
  • un-enjoyable,
  • most unentertaining,
  • un-entertaining,
  • more unentertaining.
  •unsightly (adjective)
  • 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.
  •weariful (adjective)
  • drearest,
  • drearer.

• n.

  •
  • unexciting,
  • trivial.
  •
  • colors.
  •
  • sterile,
  • excite,
  • arid.
  •attribute (noun)
  • olive drab.
  •colourless (noun)
  • colourless.
  •dismal (noun)
  • dismal.
  •drab (noun)
  • uncheerful,
  • sorry.
  •tan (noun)
  • 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)
  • sandest,
  • most olivebrown,
  • more olive brown,
  • more biscuit.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • aseptic.
  •
  • uninspired,
  • stodgy,
  • pedestrian,
  • earthbound.
  •
  • flavorless,
  • unimaginative,
  • spiritless,
  • dim,
  • prosaic.
  •
  • lifeless.
  •
  • dry.
  •dun
  • grey.

Paraphrases for Drab:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    dull, uninspiring, lacklustre, disagreeable.

Antonyms for Drab:

• adj.

  • arid
    spirited, lively, interested.
  • boring
    interesting, fascinating, exciting.
  • cheerless
    uplifting, happy, cheerful.
  • colorless
    colored, stimulating, vibrant, motley, vivid, rich, brilliant.
  • dark
    hopeful, luminous, shining, illuminated, light, encouraging, visible, lucid, radiant.
  • dingy
    immaculate, spotless, pure, clean, neat.
  • dowdy
    modern, fashionable, classy, chic.
  • drab
    inspired, colorful, bright.
  • Other antonyms:
    astounding, moving, marvelous, achromatic, inspiring, provocative, colourful, neutral, sensational, mesmerizing, animating, astonishing, spectacular, spellbinding, stirring, wondrous, rip-roaring, electrifying, touching, awesome, surprising, breathtaking, amazing, suspenseful, rousing, galvanizing, invigorating, enlivening, exhilarating, tantalizing, wonderful, thrilling, beguiling, energizing, eye-opening, hair-raising, fabulous.

Drab Sentence Examples:

• The bird is colored the same as its lesser brother, the males being a deep blue and the females a modest drab.

• While youth may be saved by hope, by what is to be, middle life is often lost in the drab reality of what is.

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.

  • attribute
    olive.