Meaning & Definition of Drab in English

1. A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

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 grey"

• "Children in somber brown clothes"

3. Of a light brownish green color

4. 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"