drab

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Editorial note

They get rockstar speakers, but drab them in corduroy & loafers.

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a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drab gathered in one view.

noun

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

adjective

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"

adjective

lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drab.

noun

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

adjective

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"

adjective

lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

adjective

of a light brownish green color

adjective

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"

Example sentences

They get rockstar speakers, but drab them in corduroy & loafers.

When something is a drab gray gets page views, but don't people get tired of having the same arguments?

It seems to be either drab office parks in the suburbs or weird campuses in the suburbs with weird buildings.

You can do editorial pages like that for major events, but not the daily drab.

I'll play a bit more but there seems to quite a lot of functionality missing not to mention the rather drab appearance.

It's always been pretty drab, a pretty bland boring blue, with an interface much like an OS. But it just works better than the alternatives, and keeps working better.

Maybe the word invokes a vision of sentences stolid and dry, bleached with metaphor to a colorless drab?

Until this spring, I had a similar tendency to think that geopolitics "nowadays" was drab and boring.

If you fast-forward the evolution of the GMail interface it is like watching a drab green Jeep being turned into a chromed Jeepney.

Even the most entrenched, old school DBA stuck in the bowels of some drab insurance company in Indiana wouldn't buy that.

So where are these leaked documents?If these media outlets are holding on to them to dribble and drab them out to make a buck, there's a huge problem with that.

It would be a drab, depressing existence to live out your slightly longer life on a planet where everyone was a doctor and no one a novelist.

"In late 2009, AG took on News and Business News, seeking to disrupt a drab and boring, and mostly pay to play business publishing space and continues to bring honest coverage and insight to an eager audience.

"Even the most entrenched, old school DBA stuck in the bowels of some drab insurance company in Indiana wouldn't buy that"I often run into people with the opinion that Oracle is the only viable solution.

Should they demo it on a couch in a messy apartment, or in a drab office with florescent lighting?This is why when you see ads for Porsche's and Mercedes, they are parked on a brick-covered street in Soho or a huge mansion with a circular driveway, instead of parked at a red light on a dirty street or in gridlock traffic, which is where they will most likely end up.

I wouldn't want to live in a world were the Grateful Dead couldn't do any drugs, teenagers could never drink a beer, nobody could express himself with a graffiti in a drab wall, no child that wants to be a graphic designer could ever pirate Photoshop, being a few months less or more than the legal age to date sends you off as a molester, playing a different region DVD lands you to jail, and a million other things...