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adj.土褐色的²¹;单调的⁴⁸;乏味的¹⁹n.邋遢女人⁴;娼妓⁴;少量⁴复数drabs副词drably比较级drabber最高级drabbest名词drabness过去分词drabbed现在分词drabbing三单drabs
乏味无聊寂寞枯燥颜色
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 lacking brightness or color; dull;drab faded curtains sober Puritan grey children in somber brown clothes of a light brownish green colorcausing 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 来自drape, 布匹，未浸染着色过的布匹。引申词义单调的。olive drab草绿色drab soil黄褐土,褐色土,褐土…drab clay淡褐色粘土
GRE难词记忆drab 音“拽吧”→拽吧拽吧，无聊的家伙GRE难词记忆drab→bread n.面包→一片发黄的面包谐音记忆drab音“拽吧”⇒拽吧拽吧，无聊的家伙GRE红宝书drag 拖拉，单调枯燥无聊近义词 dull呆滞的flat平坦的grey灰色的gray灰色的grim严厉的blue蓝色的dark黑暗的dingy肮脏的dowdy过时的plain清楚的drear阴沉的sober清醒的dreary沉闷的sombre昏暗的gloomy阴暗的somber微暗的dismal阴沉的sorry对不起的cheerless沉闷的lifeless无生命的monotonous单调的boring令人厌烦的olive drab草绿色disconsolate忧郁的unattractive无魅力的olive-drab深绿褐色的uninteresting无趣味的unexciting不令人兴奋的…
形容词99%,名词1%
用作形容词There are manydrabhouses in the smoky mining town.冒烟的矿内有许多土褐色的房子。
The female is generallydrab, the male per contra brilliant.一般来说雌性是黄褐色的，而雄性是色彩鲜明的。
The landscape isdraband infested with brick ovens.景色单调，惟见砖窑遍布。
The life of a person who never does anything is dull anddrab.如果一个人的一生什么事情都没有做是多么迟钝和单调。用作名词She pay me in drib anddrab, not all at once.她零零星星地付给我钱，而不是一次付清。adj.dull, colorless
同义词 bleak,desolate,dingy,dismal,dreary,gray,lackluster,muddy,run down,shabby,somberblah,boring,brown,dry,flat,same,zeroarid,characterless,cheerless,dull as dishwater,faded,gloomy,grungy,lusterless,murky,subfuse,unchanging,uninspired,vapid
反义词 bright,cheerful,clean,clear,good,happy,light,nice,pleasant,exciting,interestingcolorful,inspired
aridadjective uninterested, spiritless
boring,colorless,dreary,dry,dull,flat,insipid,lackluster,lifeless,tedious,unanimated,uninspired,vapid,wearisome
boringadjective uninteresting
arid,bomb,bromidic,bummer,characterless,cloying,colorless,commonplace,dead,drab,drag,drudging,dull,flat,ho-hum,humdrum,insipid,interminable,irksome,lifeless,monotonous,moth-eaten,mundane,nothing,nowhere,platitudinous,plebeian,prosaic,repetitious,routine,spiritless,stale,stereotyped,stodgy,stuffy,stupid,tame,tedious,threadbare,tiresome,tiring,trite,unexciting,uninteresting,unvaried,vapid,wearisome,well-worn,zero
brownadjective of a dark color with a yellow-red hue
amber,auburn,bay,beige,bister,brick,bronze,buff,burnt sienna,chestnut,chocolate,cinnamon,cocoa,coffee,copper,drab,dust,ecru,fawn,ginger,hazel,henna,khaki,mahogany,nut brown,ochre,puce,russet,rust,sepia,snuff-colored,sorrel,tan,tawny,terra-cotta,toast,umber
cheerlessadjective depressing, unhappy
austere,black,bleak,blue,comfortless,dark,dejected,dejecting,depressed,desolate,despondent,disconsolate,dismal,dispiriting,dolorous,drab,draggy,drearisome,dreary,dull,forlorn,funereal,gloomy,grim,in the dumps,jarring,joyless,melancholy,miserable,mopey,mournful,oppressive,sad,somber,sorrowful,sullen,tenebrific,uncomfortable,wintry,woebegone,woeful
colorlessadjective without hue
achromatic,achromic,anemic,ashen,ashy,blanched,bleached,cadaverous,doughy,drab,dull,faded,flat,ghastly,livid,lurid,neutral,pale,sickly,uncolored,wan,washed out,waxen,white
darkadjective grim, hopeless
bleak,cheerless,dismal,doleful,drab,foreboding,gloomy,joyless,morbid,morose,mournful,ominous,sinister,somber,unpropitious He complained that the problem with writing about his own country was that“the slot between fantastic and drab seems too narrow”, and yet Rabbit could have been born of no other earth.
他抱怨道，写自己的国家会有个问题就是“精彩和单调之间的差异太小”，然而兔子又不能出生在别的地方。 ecocn
NEITHER the drab modernity of the suburbs nor the beautiful buildings in the centre hint that Cambridge is at the heart of one of Britain’s biggest clusters of high-tech businesses.
剑桥无论是单调而现代的郊区，还是满是漂亮建筑物的市中心，都无法让人察觉到这里其实是英国最大的高新科技商业中心。 ecocn
Researchers at England’s University of Saint Andrews say that photosynthetic life on such a planet might end up as a drab black or gray. Or even with a high SPF.
英国圣安德鲁大学的研究人员表示,在这样的行星上,植物的光合作用结果只会是呈单调的黑色或者灰色,甚至是更深的颜色. yeeyan |