drab

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
• Syn:
olive drab
• Hypernyms:
olive

II - adjective

1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise (Freq. 2)
- her drab personality
- life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
- a series of dreary dinner parties
• Syn:
dreary
• Similar to:
dull
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary), drabness
2. lacking brightness or color;
dull (Freq. 1)
- drab faded curtains
- sober Puritan grey
- children in somber brown clothes
• Syn:
sober, somber, sombre
• Similar to:
colorless, colourless
• Derivationally related forms:
sombreness (for: sombre), somberness (for: somber)
3. of a light brownish green color
• Syn:
olive-drab
• Similar to:
chromatic
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
• Syn:
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal,
gloomy, grim, sorry, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  olive-drab, sober, somber, sombre, dreary, olive drab