Drab vs. Dreary
Drab and Dreary Definitions
Drab
Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
Dreary
Dismal; bleak.
Drab
Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
Dreary
Boring; dull
Dreary tasks.
Drab
Faded and dull in appearance.
Dreary
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
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Drab
Dull or commonplace in character; dreary
A drab personality.
Dreary
(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
Drab
A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
Dreary
Sorrowful; distressful.
Drab
Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
Dreary
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Full many a dreary anxious hour.
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.
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Drab
A slovenly woman; a slattern.
Dreary
Depressing in character or appearance;
Drove through dingy streets
The dismal prison twilight
Drab old buildings
A dreary mining town
Gloomy tenements
Sorry routine that follows on the heels of death
Drab
A woman prostitute.
Dreary
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
Drab
A negligible amount
Finished the work in dribs and drabs.
Drab
To consort with prostitutes
"Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs" (Stanislaus Joyce).
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Drab
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
Drab
The colour of this fabric.
Drab
Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
Drab
(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
Drab
(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
Drab
(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
Drab
A small amount, especially of money.
Drab
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drab
An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
Drab
Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
Drab
(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
Drab
To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
Drab
A low, sluttish woman.
Drab
A lewd wench; a strumpet.
Drab
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drab
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; - called also drabcloth.
Drab
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Drab
To associate with strumpets; to wench.
Drab
Of a color between gray and brown.
Drab
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
Drab
Lacking brightness or color; dull;
Drab faded curtains
Sober Puritan gray
Children in somber brown clothes
Drab
Depressing in character or appearance;
Drove through dingy streets
The dismal prison twilight
Drab old buildings
A dreary mining town
Gloomy tenements
Sorry routine that follows on the heels of death
