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drab 音標拼音: [dr'æb] n. 黃褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓 黃褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓 drab adj 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" [ synonym: { drab}, { dreary}] 2: lacking brightness or color; dull; " drab faded curtains"; " sober Puritan grey"; " children in somber brown clothes" [ synonym: { drab}, { sober}, { somber}, { sombre}] 3: of a light brownish green color [ synonym: { olive- drab}, { drab}] 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" [ synonym: { blue}, { dark}, { dingy}, { disconsolate}, { dismal}, { gloomy}, { grim}, { sorry}, { drab}, { drear}, { dreary}] n 1: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [ synonym: { olive drab}, { drab}] Drab \ Drab\, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color. [ 1913 Webster]
Drab \ Drab\ ( dr[ a^] b), n. [ AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. { Draff}.] 1. A low, sluttish woman. -- King. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. [ 1913 Webster]
Drab \ Drab\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Drabbing}.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. -- Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster]
Drab \ Drab\, n. [ F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. { Drape}, { Trappings}.] 1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also { drabcloth}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. [ 1913 Webster] 94 Moby Thesaurus words for " drab": bag, bat, bawd, beige, beldam, biddy, bleak, boring, brown, brownish, brownish- yellow, brunet, cheerless, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa- brown, coffee, coffee- brown, colorless, crone, cruiser, dead, deadened, desolate, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, dowdy, dreary, dull, dun, dun- brown, dun- drab, ecru, faded, fawn, fawn- colored, fille de joie, flat, fuscous, gray, grege, grey, hag, harlot, hazel, hooker, humdrum, hustler, khaki, lackluster, lifeless, lurid, lusterless, mat, monotonous, muddy, murky, nightwalker, nut- brown, olive- brown, olive- drab, prosaic, prosy, repetitive, same, samely, seal, seal- brown, sepia, slut, snuff- colored, somber, sorrel, streetwalker, subfusc, tan, taupe, tawny, tedious, toast, toast- brown, traipse, trot, umber, umber- colored, unrelieved, walnut, walnut- brown, wan, whore, witch, yellowish- brown
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