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# drab

«drab» in Mova's school dictionary: **Dull and boring, with no bright colours or interest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (drab, drabber, drabbest); noun (drab, uncountable — a dull brownish colour, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dull and boring, with no bright colours or interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#m1)

2) Grey or brownish in colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#m2)

3) (of life or a place) Without fun or excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, drab clothes, rooms or towns create a sad or boring mood; in science, some female birds are drab so they can hide on the nest; phrases: «drab and grey», «a drab little room», «drab colours».

### examples

- The classroom looked drab until we put up our paintings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x1)
- The female duck is drab brown, but the male is bright green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x2)
- She wore a drab grey coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x3)
- The town looked drab in the winter rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x4)
- Our new wallpaper turned a drab room into a happy one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x5)
- He wanted to escape his drab, boring life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x6)
- Drab feathers help birds hide from foxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x7)
- She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/#x8)

### note

Comparatives: drabber, drabbest (double b). Opposite: bright, colourful, cheerful. Noun: drabness.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drab» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drab/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.