Synonyms for drab
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1. olive drab, drabadjective

   a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

   Synonyms:
   olive-drab uniform, olive drab

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, colorful, colourful, cheerful, lively, neutral

2. drab, drearyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dark, disconsolate, drear, dreary, sorry, sombre, olive-drab, grim, gloomy, sober, somber, dismal, dingy, blue

   Antonyms:
   lively, colourful, colorful, cheerful, neutral, achromatic

3. drab, sober, somber, sombreadjective

   lacking brightness or color; dull

   "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

   Synonyms:
   sober, serious, melancholy, somber, dingy, drear, grim, gloomy, dismal, blue, dark, grave, olive-drab, sedate, disconsolate, dreary, unplayful, solemn, sorry, sombre

   Antonyms:
   colorful, cheerful, colourful, lively, neutral, achromatic

4. olive-drab, drabadjective

   of a light brownish green color

   Synonyms:
   dark, disconsolate, drear, dreary, sorry, sombre, olive-drab, grim, gloomy, sober, somber, dismal, dingy, blue

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic, colourful, cheerful, colorful, lively

5. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, achromatic, neutral, colourful, colorful, lively

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1. drabnoun

   Synonyms:
   strumpet, courtesan, DOXY

2. drabnoun

   Synonyms:
   slut, draggle-tail, low woman

3. drabadjective

   Synonyms:
   dun, dull brown

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1. List of paraphrases for "drab":

   dull, uninspiring, unpleasant

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1. Douglas MacArthur:

   The Long Gray Line has never failed us, were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words :' Duty, honor, country.'.