as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the new city hall promises to be another drab pile of masonry for the town
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as in prostitute
a woman who engages in sexual activities for money
in its time, this waterfront dive was decried as a den of iniquity, unfit even for the drunks and drabs who haunted it
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Recent Examples of drab
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Adobe’s forecast is only the latest sign that the all-important holiday shopping season could be more drab than cheery.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
Best metallic kitten heels Outfit looking a little drab?
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Every surreal interaction, every drab office, every incongruously adoring wife is another turn through the same loop.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Adobe’s forecast is only the latest sign that the all-important holiday shopping season could be more drab than cheery.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study published March 13 in the journal Science.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
Best metallic kitten heels Outfit looking a little drab?
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drab
Adjective
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Though the pacing and breadth of the episode ensure that things never get boring, not all the stories are equally compelling.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Klum doesn't want to let anyone down by choosing the boring or easy way out with a costume.—
Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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During that time, Wuornos was working as a prostitute to support both herself and her girlfriend, Tyria Moore.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Records later released from that case show the prosecutor presented the girls molested by Epstein as prostitutes and liars when speaking to the grand jury.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The dull stories the show crafts around them add no insight or substance.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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But becoming a lawyer wasn’t his calling, and being dull wasn’t his nature.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Three other Scottish squad reinforcements -- lock Gregor Brown, hooker Ewan Ashman and prop Rory Sutherland -- were named on the bench.—
Nick Mulvenney,
Reuters,
21 July 2025
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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But Braun was solid before tiring and working through injuries that affected him on the ball over the final month last season.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead of a chance to flex their goalscoring muscles, United had to grit their teeth and see out a gruelling, tense, tiring second half.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This is not a dusty collection or hodgepodge of Gold Rush artifacts placed around a xeriscape.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The old shelves with their dusty cans were gone, replaced by three wooden pillars, each with a small platform at chest height.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Tiles also exhibited hysteresis, which was smaller at slower speeds due to the rubber’s viscoelastic properties, as reported by Nanowerk.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Levi, an electrical engineer who founded MicroKits in 2020, has had to raise prices, slow production and pause plans to launch a new product – Banan-a-Synth – that lets kids turn a bunch of bananas into a kind of keyboard.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And yet, for all my disdain, there's a morbid lovableness to Pattinson's portrayal that manages to disarm the weary cynic that's grown with age.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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But according to the song's very own author, the weary search for reasons is more the point than the restoration of belief.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Drab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drab. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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