drab - Meaning in Konkani

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drab - Meaning in Konkani

drab Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of drab in English

drab adjective

1. causing dejection

   Synonyms

   blue, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, grim, sorry

   Examples

   • "a blue day"
   • "a dark gloomy day"
   • "a disconsolate winter landscape"
   • "a week of rainy depressing weather"
   • "grim rainy weather"
   • "the dark days of the war"
   • "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
2. of a light brownish green color

   Synonyms

   olive-drab

3. lacking brightness or color; dull

   Synonyms

   sober, somber, sombre

   Examples

   • "children in somber brown clothes"
   • "drab faded curtains"
   • "sober Puritan grey"
4. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

   Synonyms

   dreary

   Examples

   • "a series of dreary dinner parties"
   • "her drab personality"
   • "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"

drab noun

1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

   Synonyms

   olive drab

Synonyms of drab

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

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