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The Meaning of drab

  • (n.) A low, sluttish woman.
  • (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.
  • (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  • (v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.
  • (n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
  • (n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
  • (a.) Of a color between gray and brown.
  • (n.) A drab color.

Synonyms

olive drab , dreary , sober , somber , sombre , olive-drab , blue , dark , dingy , disconsolate , dismal , gloomy , grim , sorry , drear , dreary

Rhymes

ab , ahab , bab , babb , cab , colab , crab , crabb , crabbe , dab , fab , flab , gab , grab , grabbe , jab , knab , knabb , krabbe , lab , labbe , mab , macnab , mcnab , mcnabb , nab , prefab , punjab , rab , rabb , sabb , scab , schab , slab , stab , tab , tabb , taxicab