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adjectivedrabbest, drabber drabdræb 1Lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull. 无光彩的；缺少情趣的，单调乏味的 the landscape was drab and grey 景色灰暗。 her drab suburban existence 她那郊区的单调乏味的生活。 Example sentencesExamples - They jumped and turned about in time to see a gaunt, sour-faced gray man in drab clothing appear with a blue cap in his hand.
- To be fair, much of that is probably due to the general lack of interest in Howard's drab party.
- She offered Billy a clear route of escape from his drab existence, even if was hard to understand how she could really be interested in him.
- Life in the orphanage was a rather drab existence.
- The wizard turned what would have been a dull and drab lecture into an interesting one.
- They seemed a drab assortment of mediocrities.
- It continues to thrive on juxtapositions, the mixture of the shiny new gems and the bright life behind the drab facades of the old buildings.
- In a clear departure from the dull and drab appearance that Government publications are usually identified with, the newsletters sport a jaunty look.
- It's the only point of interest in his excruciatingly drab life, which is rendered more unhappy by his incessant bullying at the hands of seven overbearing sisters.
- Once in France, the family settled in a cramped flat in the drab Paris suburb of Trappes, which is close to Versailles.
- A great performance by Polanski as the boring, drab office worker who slowly goes insane, and, consequently, sheds his inhibited personality.
- Grouping four or five boxwood in one area and using different sized pots make an eyecatching bright green display to brighten up an otherwise drab spot.
- As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
- I also think many scenes look too drab and boring, when others are so bright and vivid, but I can't deny that the story works.
- I was working in the day for commercial illustrators in Pitt Street and it was a drab existence I can tell you.
- Handicrafts have been directed not only to fulfil one's daily requirement but to add beauty and brightness in the otherwise dull and drab existence.
- Every one of them seemed to have a stream of people entering or leaving them, except for one, a squat building painted brightly against its drab background.
- Looking around I could see clumps of snowdrops which brightened the drab countryside.
- Whatever this meeting brought, one thing for sure was that it would brighten my somewhat drab existence - my so-called life.
- I'm really feeling quite drab and dull this week.
Synonyms colourless, grey, greyish, dull, dull-coloured, washed out, neutral, pale, muted, lacklustre, lustreless, muddy, watery lightish brown, brownish, brownish-grey, mousy, dun-coloured dingy, dreary, dismal, cheerless, gloomy, sombre, depressing uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, wearisome unexciting, bland, non-stimulating, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninspired, insipid, lustreless, lacklustre, vapid, flat, stale, trite, vacuous, feeble, pallid, wishy-washy, colourless, limp, lame, tired, lifeless, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, barren, tame, bloodless, antiseptic middle-of-the-road, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, mediocre, nondescript, characterless, mundane, unexceptional, unremarkable, humdrum, prosaic 2Of a dull light brown colour. 黄褐色的；浅褐色的 黄褐色迷彩服。 Example sentencesExamples - They seemed to be called away from whatever task they happened to be doing, dressed in drab blacks, browns, and blues.
- They were dressed in their brown drab uniform with armor strapped over it and sporting open faced helmets; they were the enemy.
- After months in the desert, surrounded by drab camouflage gear, the soldiers smiled broadly at the flight attendants as they boarded the plane.
- The jester was wearing drab brown, had tied his curly black hair back neatly, and on the whole looked like an entirely different person.
- Outside of the breeding season, the male is drab brown with hints of yellow and white wing-bars.
- The hall chosen for the day's meeting was covered in drab brown, and filled with seats in a semicircle arrangement, slanted down and around the stage, at the foot of the seating.
- We captured nine drab males and nine bright males from each site.
- His hat matched his light brown, drab overcoat.
- Part of this comes from the business, but part of it comes from creative use of drab colours.
- For the costumes they had gone quite traditional Isreali with long skirts for both sexes and very drab colours.
- All of them wore their drab browns with the exception of their red-clad King.
- The castle was a dark grey in stone, built into a lush gray mountain, on top of earth that was a very drab shade of light black.
- The shape-changer looked down at himself, observing drab brown feathers, barred and speckled, that covered a body half the size of the bird before him.
- A drab brown little bird, it has a weak but musical song, which doesn't carry far but can be heard from low bushes or hedges.
- A splendid Stalagmite standing 2 to 3 feet high and set apart from the drab brown of the rest of the passage by its white crystalline purity greeted my ascent.
- Females are a mottled drab brown with a long, orange, black splotched bill, black crown, dark eye-line, and orange legs.
- Set in the middle-of-nowhere, the color schemes of drab browns and blues enhance the terror already in the air.
- Garbed in regally beaded, colorful gowns of orange and blue-green instead of their normally drab brown shifts, they looked almost like royalty.
- As if dressing for their performance, the males turn from drab brown to a pale beige color that contrasts with the darker mud.
- They are colored to blend in with their sandy environment: most are whitish or drab brown, and many have red-tinged or dark mottling along the back and head.
- Despite its drab colour, Tokyo is immaculately clean.
noun drabdræb mass noun1Fabric of a dull light brown colour. 黄褐色的；浅褐色的 - 1.1drabs Clothes, especially trousers, made of drab.
褐色布服装（尤指裤子） a young man dressed in drabs 一个身穿褐色衣服的年轻男子。 Example sentencesExamples - They wore beige camouflage drabs, a black helmet, which also doubled as a gas mask, and wore revlar vests.
- Oh, and don't forget heartburn suffered by many when an Army battle dress uniform was pressed upon us in exchange for the old olive drabs.
- They wore winter drabs, and I couldn't decide whether they were Australasian or Hoary-headed grebes.
Derivativesadverbˈdrabliˈdræbli ‘I was terrified that the first episode began so slowly and drably that it would put people off,’ he admits. Example sentencesExamples - The dancers are white-faced and dressed drably in grey and black, with smears on their costumes like chalk.
- From the cockpit, we could see rows of drably camouflaged warplanes filling every inch of ramp space.
- This time she wasn't dressing as drably as possible.
- That headline reads like the title of a Monty Python sketch or an obscure, slightly funny but drably photographed art-house movie.
nounˈdrabnəsˈdræbnəs I got the underpainting done today, experiencing the old feeling that a nice fresh drawing was being submerged in a more or less monotone drabness. Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, ways must be found to create communal urban space capable of mitigating the drabness and dreariness of most public housing developments.
- The secret: excellent raw materials and handicraft skills that have somehow survived decades of war and years of egalitarian drabness.
- From the first strains of funky double bass, they manage to transport the cold and harassed shoppers around them from the local drabness to a world where the sun shines and the living is easy.
- The contrast between the plain exterior and the immensely rich interior is like a sharp blow: perhaps an intended device to remind us of the drabness of the outer life and the vibrant richness of the inner life?
OriginMid 16th century (as a noun denoting undyed cloth): probably from Old French drap 'cloth' (see drape). trappings from Late Middle English: Animal traps (Old English) have nothing to do with trappings, which go back to Latin drappus ‘cloth’, the source of draper, drab [M16] originally undyed cloth, and drapery (Late Middle English). In the 14th century trappings were an ornamental harness for a horse, but now people more often use the word in contexts such as ‘the trappings of success’ for the outwards signs or objects associated with a particular role or job.
Rhymesblab, cab, confab, crab, Crabbe, dab, fab, flab, gab, grab, jab, kebab, lab, nab, scab, slab, smash-and-grab, stab, tab OriginEarly 16th century: perhaps related to Low German drabbe 'mire' and Dutch drab 'dregs'. adjectivedrabdræb 1Lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull. 无光彩的；缺少情趣的，单调乏味的 the landscape was drab and gray 景色灰暗。 her drab suburban existence 她那郊区的单调乏味的生活。 Example sentencesExamples - Handicrafts have been directed not only to fulfil one's daily requirement but to add beauty and brightness in the otherwise dull and drab existence.
- It continues to thrive on juxtapositions, the mixture of the shiny new gems and the bright life behind the drab facades of the old buildings.
- They seemed a drab assortment of mediocrities.
- I'm really feeling quite drab and dull this week.
- Every one of them seemed to have a stream of people entering or leaving them, except for one, a squat building painted brightly against its drab background.
- A great performance by Polanski as the boring, drab office worker who slowly goes insane, and, consequently, sheds his inhibited personality.
- I also think many scenes look too drab and boring, when others are so bright and vivid, but I can't deny that the story works.
- In a clear departure from the dull and drab appearance that Government publications are usually identified with, the newsletters sport a jaunty look.
- Grouping four or five boxwood in one area and using different sized pots make an eyecatching bright green display to brighten up an otherwise drab spot.
- As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
- The wizard turned what would have been a dull and drab lecture into an interesting one.
- She offered Billy a clear route of escape from his drab existence, even if was hard to understand how she could really be interested in him.
- They jumped and turned about in time to see a gaunt, sour-faced gray man in drab clothing appear with a blue cap in his hand.
- To be fair, much of that is probably due to the general lack of interest in Howard's drab party.
- Looking around I could see clumps of snowdrops which brightened the drab countryside.
- It's the only point of interest in his excruciatingly drab life, which is rendered more unhappy by his incessant bullying at the hands of seven overbearing sisters.
- Once in France, the family settled in a cramped flat in the drab Paris suburb of Trappes, which is close to Versailles.
- Life in the orphanage was a rather drab existence.
- Whatever this meeting brought, one thing for sure was that it would brighten my somewhat drab existence - my so-called life.
- I was working in the day for commercial illustrators in Pitt Street and it was a drab existence I can tell you.
Synonyms colourless, grey, greyish, dull, dull-coloured, washed out, neutral, pale, muted, lacklustre, lustreless, muddy, watery uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, wearisome 2Of a dull light brown color. 黄褐色的；浅褐色的 黄褐色迷彩服。 Example sentencesExamples - Set in the middle-of-nowhere, the color schemes of drab browns and blues enhance the terror already in the air.
- As if dressing for their performance, the males turn from drab brown to a pale beige color that contrasts with the darker mud.
- The jester was wearing drab brown, had tied his curly black hair back neatly, and on the whole looked like an entirely different person.
- The shape-changer looked down at himself, observing drab brown feathers, barred and speckled, that covered a body half the size of the bird before him.
- We captured nine drab males and nine bright males from each site.
- They seemed to be called away from whatever task they happened to be doing, dressed in drab blacks, browns, and blues.
- After months in the desert, surrounded by drab camouflage gear, the soldiers smiled broadly at the flight attendants as they boarded the plane.
- They were dressed in their brown drab uniform with armor strapped over it and sporting open faced helmets; they were the enemy.
- Despite its drab colour, Tokyo is immaculately clean.
- Outside of the breeding season, the male is drab brown with hints of yellow and white wing-bars.
- Part of this comes from the business, but part of it comes from creative use of drab colours.
- Females are a mottled drab brown with a long, orange, black splotched bill, black crown, dark eye-line, and orange legs.
- All of them wore their drab browns with the exception of their red-clad King.
- His hat matched his light brown, drab overcoat.
- Garbed in regally beaded, colorful gowns of orange and blue-green instead of their normally drab brown shifts, they looked almost like royalty.
- A drab brown little bird, it has a weak but musical song, which doesn't carry far but can be heard from low bushes or hedges.
- The hall chosen for the day's meeting was covered in drab brown, and filled with seats in a semicircle arrangement, slanted down and around the stage, at the foot of the seating.
- A splendid Stalagmite standing 2 to 3 feet high and set apart from the drab brown of the rest of the passage by its white crystalline purity greeted my ascent.
- The castle was a dark grey in stone, built into a lush gray mountain, on top of earth that was a very drab shade of light black.
- For the costumes they had gone quite traditional Isreali with long skirts for both sexes and very drab colours.
- They are colored to blend in with their sandy environment: most are whitish or drab brown, and many have red-tinged or dark mottling along the back and head.
noundrabdræb Fabric of a dull brownish color. 黄褐色的；浅褐色的
OriginMid 16th century (as a noun denoting undyed cloth): probably from Old French drap ‘cloth’ (see drape). OriginEarly 16th century: perhaps related to Low German drabbe ‘mire’ and Dutch drab ‘dregs’. |