Found 3 items, similar to drab.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: drab
kuning sawo, membosankan, pelacur
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: drab
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” [syn:
dreary]
2: lacking brightness or color; dull;
“drab faded curtains”;
“sober Puritan gray”;
“children in somber brown clothes”
[syn:
sober,
somber,
sombre]
3: depressing in character or appearance;
“drove through dingy
streets”;
“the dismal prison twilight”- Charles Dickens;
“drab old buildings”;
“a dreary mining town”;
“gloomy
tenements”;
“sorry routine that follows on the heels of
death”- B.A.Williams [syn:
dingy,
dismal,
drear,
dreary,
gloomy,
sorry]
[also:
drabbing,
drabbed,
drabbest,
drabber]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Drab
Drab
\Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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Drab
\Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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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.
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2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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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.
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2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.
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3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
taken out of the boiling pans.
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