drab

About 1.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
2. noun The color of this fabric.

   drab:

3. noun Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
4. noun A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
5. adjective Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
6. adjective Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.
7. noun A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
8. noun A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.

Similar words

dull dreary cheerless sombre gloomy drear somber dismal dingy colourless

Often followed by

and or in little gray brown of existence as

Word family

drabbed drabber drabbest drabbing drably drabness drabnesses drabs dribs and drabs