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
olive drab草绿色drab soil黄褐土,褐色土,褐土…drab clay淡褐色粘土
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…
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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。