Drab

Definition: Drab

Drab

Adjective

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".

2. Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes".

3. Depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DRAB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Drab

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Uncleanness

Dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep; beast.

Crosswords: Drab

Books

• A.K.A. Dorothy Drab (reference)

• Climbing, the Definitive Guide to Dropping Names, Putting on Airs, Scaling the Social Ladder, and Escaping the Drab, Vulgar Existence of Respectable m (reference)

• Drab i Danmark 1946-70 : en retsmedicinsk unders�gelse (reference)

• Olive Drab in an Eight-Cornered Hat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loading plant, artillery shells soon to batter the Axis are sprayed with olive drab paint. This women is a sprayer, but women also do the "puddling" of TNT in shells better than men. For ". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "drab": olive drab. Additional references.

Beginning with "drab": drab-coloured, drab-looking, drab-trousered.

Ending with "drab": olive-drab.

Albanian

uniformë kaki për stërvitje, prostitutë (bawd, call girl, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, night walker, prostitute, streetwalker, tramp, trollop, trull), ngjyrë kafe e vrarë, monoton (even, flat, jogtrot, monotone, monotonous, singsong, toneless, unrelieved), lavire (prostitute, strumpet, trull, whore), kafe e vrarë, i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i pashije (dowdy, flavorless, flavourless, frumpish, gaudy, inelegant, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless, savourless), grua e pistë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مومس (baggage, bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, slut, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), ‏وحيد اللون, ‏عاشر المومسات, ‏الدراب قماش رمادي, ‏أسمر فاتح, ‏رتيب (featureless, humdrum, monotonous, vegetable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сив (eventless, grey, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly), раздърпана жена, мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), бозав, проститутка (doxy, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore). (various references)

Chinese 

土褐色 (drably). (various references)

Czech

nevýrazný (dull, featureless, Gray, grey, laconic, nerveless, nondescript, poverty stricken, uninspired), jednotvárný (dull, featureless, humdrum, jejune, monotonous, trivial, uneventful, uniform, unrelieved), fádní (bloodless, dreary, dull, featureless, flat, Gray, grey, humdrum, jejune, tame, tasteless, tiresome), šedý (grey), šeï. (various references)

Farsi 

یکنواخت وخسته کننده , فاحشه (Harlot, Madem, Mademe, Nag, Prostitute, Pug, Quean, Ribald, Stallion, Townswoman, Tramp, Wench, Whore), کسل کننده (Drowsy, Irksome, Prosaic, Tedious), زن شلخته (Slut, Trollop), خاکستری (Ashen, Gray, Grey), جنده بازی کردن . (various references)

French

toile bise, terne, morne (drear, dreary), grue, gris. (various references)

German

düster (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, dreary, dusky, forbidding, frowning, funereal, funereally, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, Gray, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sepulcher, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Greek 

κιτρινοφαίοσ, γκριζόμαυροσ (dun), πληκτικόσ (dull, humdrum, prolix, sententious, uninteresting), παλιογυναίκα (jade, quean), ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Hebrew 

משעמם (boring, dry, dull, humdrum, logy, monotonous, mundane, tedious, tiresome, uneventful), זו� �" (harlot, prostitute, slut, whore), ח�" �'ו� י (humdrum, monochromatic, monotonous, singsong, tedious, unvaried). (various references)

Hungarian

sárgásszürke szín, utcarongya, szajha (bad woman, bitch, harlot, jade, moll, polecat, punk, slut, strumpet, trollop, wench, whore), szürke (commonplace, dingy, dusty, flat, gray, grey, mousy, to lead a drab existence), szürkésbarna (dun, greyish-brown), ribanc (bang, bimbo, pickup, polecat, slag), prostituált (common prostitute, common woman, fille de joie, hooker, pinnace, prostitute, punter, street girl, strumpet, trollop, whore), piszkos nő (trollop), kurva (bimbo, bitch, chippy, doxy, fucking, harlot, hooker, hustler, laced mutton, pickup, prostitute, slag, slut, whore, winchester goose), köznapi (casual, commonplace, quotidian), iszapszínű, drapp szín, drapp (beige), örömtelen (joyless, mirthless). (various references)

Indonesian

pelacur (courtesan, harlot, prostitute, whore), membosankan (arid, bore, boring, monotonous, tedious), kuning sawo. (various references)

Italian

sciatteria (inaccuracy, sloppiness, slovenliness), incolore (colorless, colourless), grigiastro (grayish, greyish, grizzly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄汚い (dirty, filthy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うすぎたない (dirty, filthy). (various references)

Manx

stritlag (jilt, slattern, trollop), streel (fancy woman, loiterer, lounger, scamp, spendthrift, stroller, vagabond, vamp, vamp woman), neughaahagh (characterless), dree (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, painful, tedious). (various references)

Norwegian

trist (bleak, dismal, dreary, dull, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), ensformig (humdrum). (various references)

Pig Latin

abdray

Portuguese

tedioso (boring, dull, lengthy, ponderous, prolix, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome), prostituta (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, mort, prostitute, punk, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench, whore), porca (draggle-tail, screw, sow, traipse), pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gloomy, gross, hefty, hulking, leaden, logy, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), monotonia (blankness, dead-level, draggle-tail, humdrum, insipidity, monotone, monotony, platitude, sameness, traipse, vapidity), monótono (arid, dreary, flat, monotone, monotonous, repetitious, singsong, vapid, wearisome), fastidioso (annoying, boring, disgustful, dull, fastidious, irksome, monotonous, picksome, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, wearisome), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), castanho-claro (draggle-tail, traipse), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), târfã (baggage, doxy, harlot, Moll, slut, strumpet, tart, wench, whore), prostituatã (call girl, chippy, doxy, harlot, Moll, prostitute, strumpet, unfortunate, whore), monotonie (monotone, monotony, sameness), monoton (bald, dead, ding-dong, dull, flat, humdrum, inanimate, monotonous, monotonously, same, singsong, slow, tame, uneventful), femeie stricatã (bitch, light woman, wanton woman), femeie murdarã, culoarea cafeniu-deschis, cenuşiu (ash-colored, ash-coloured, ashen, ashy, Gray, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, leaden, neutral), cafeniu-deschis, buleandrã (draggle-tail, duster, rag, rags, rubber, scamp, shred, slattern, slut, sticks, trollop). (various references)

Russian 

скучный (boring, dry, dull, dull beggar, flat, heartbreaking, inanimate, insipid, irksome, jejune, languid, long, long winded, longspun, monotone, ponderous, prolix, tedious, trying, uninspiring, uninteresting, weariful, yawnful), тускло-коричневый цвет, тускло-коричневый, однообразие (drab existence, drabness, jogtrot, monotony, sameliness, sameness), неряшливая женщина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

jednoličan (monotonous, uneventful, uniform, unvaried), žućkasto-smeđa boja, žućkastosmeđ (fulvous). (various references)

Spanish

pardusco (brownish, mousey, mousy). (various references)

Swedish

tråkig (boring, disagreable, dull, dusty, humdrum, irksome, jejune, pedestrian, prosy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, unpleasant, vapid), enformig (dull, humdrum, monotonous, repetitious). (various references)

Turkish

dostsuz (unbefriended, unfriended), donuk açık kahverengi kumaş, donuk açık kahverengi, tekdüze (flat, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, singsong, soul-destroying, uniform), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), pasaklı kadın (dowdy, draggletail, flea-bag, slattern, slut, trollop, untidy woman), orospu (bitch, chippy, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, Moll, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, trull, whore), monoton (humdrum, monotone, monotonous, opaque, soul-destroying, soulless), kaltak, haki renk (khaki, olive drab), fahişe (bitch, bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slag, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore), arkadaşsız (friendless, unbefriended, unfriended). (various references)

Ukrainian

сірий (blunket, grey, grisly, grizzly, leaden, wan), бруднуватий жовто-коричневий колір, бруднуватий жовто-коричневий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xám xịt (livid, mousy, subfusc), vải nâu xám vải d� y m� u nâu xám sự đều đều, sự bu�"n tẻ người đ� n b� nhếch nhác, người đ� n b� nhơ bẩn gái đĩ, nâu xám đều đều, gái điếm (broad, floozie, floozy, harlot, streetwalker, strumpet, wench), bu�"n tẻ (dead-alive, dryasdust, dull, dully, heavy, humdrum, inanimate, jogtrot, ponderous, tame, toneless, waste). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drab": drabbed, drabber, drabbest, drabbet, drabbets, drabbing, drabble, drabbled, drabbles, drabbling, drably, drabness, drabnesses, drabs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabg, dabi, dabo, D'abo, darb, Darbo, darib, darv, dawb, Derab, dhaba, diab, Doab, dra, draa, draak, Draba, drabe, Drabo, drac, draf, drai, drak, drap, draq, drav, drax, draz, dreb, dreeb, dref, drex, dribe, drobe, droob, druv, drva, Dzaba, krab, Trab, Trabb, trba, Vrba. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bard, brad, darb.

-1 letter: arb, bad, bar, bra, dab, rad.

-2 letters: ab, ad, ar, ba.

+1 letter: ardeb, barde, bards, bared, beard, board, brads, braid, brand, bread, broad, darbs, debar, dobra, drabs, rabid.

+2 letters: abider, aboard, abrade, abroad, absurd, adsorb, adverb, ardebs, badder, badger, balder, bander, barbed, barded, bardes, bardic, barfed, barged, barked, barred, bawdry, bayard, beards, blared, boards, boyard, braced, braids, braked, brands, brandy, braved, brayed, brazed, breads, bready, briard, bridal, broads, byroad, dabber, dauber, daubry, debark, debars, disbar, dobras, drably, durbar, forbad, garbed, redbay, ribald, riband, roband, sabred, serdab, tabard.

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