drab
adjective/dræb/
/dræb/
(comparative drabber, superlative drabbest)
- without interest or colour; boring
- She longed to be out of the cold, drab little office.
- drab women, dressed in browns and greys
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2- She looked drab and ordinary today.
- The costumes were pretty drab.
- several depressingly drab paintings
- the drab grey walls of the prison
- their drab little lives
- She was led through the drab corridors of the administration block.
- They found the world drab and depressing.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDrab is used with these nouns:- brown
More Like This Consonant-doubling adjectivesConsonant-doubling adjectivesWord Originmid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting ‘undyed cloth’): probably from Old French drap ‘cloth’, from late Latin drappus.
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