drabber Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
    dreary; drab.
    • her drab personality
    • life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
    • a series of dreary dinner parties
  2. adjective satellite lacking brightness or color; dull
    sober; somber; sombre; drab.
    • drab faded curtains
    • sober Puritan grey
    • children in somber brown clothes
  3. adjective satellite of a light brownish green color
    drab; olive-drab.
  4. adjective satellite causing dejection
    blue; dingy; drear; disconsolate; dreary; dark; gloomy; dismal; drab; sorry; grim.
    • a blue day
    • the dark days of the war
    • a week of rainy depressing weather
    • a disconsolate winter landscape
    • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
    • a dark gloomy day
    • grim rainy weather

WordNet


Drab"ber noun
Definitions
  1. One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

Webster 1913