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
Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Most of the movie is in drab, lint-ball tones that match Yelena’s mood.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
This will occur in drips and drabs.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Covered from head to toe in drab brown and sporting a bun hairdo covered by a hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead, Gladys could be found on a park bench, where dirty old man Tyrone F. Horneigh (Arte Johnson) would sidle up to her and make an off-color, insulting remark.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Most of the movie is in drab, lint-ball tones that match Yelena’s mood.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
These varieties produce drab-looking but tasty fruiting bodies called truffles, which mammals like dogs or boars will find by smell—then dig up and eat.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
This will occur in drips and drabs.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drab
Adjective
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Belief that your institution is exempt from the hard, functional and often boring parts of the job leads to a slow decline.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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One ideal that rung loudly at the presentation was that these students were unafraid to dream–rather than send designs down the runway that felt truncated, trendy or downright boring, the student designers chose an opposite route.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
20 May 2025
Noun
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At some point, Perkins reportedly introduced Millard to a Black prostitute but Millard wanted a White one instead, the news report said, citing warrants.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2023
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, named after Shields’s controversial first film about a young girl who was a child prostitute, features interviews from her childhood friend and actress Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore and how to contrasted with Shields’s experience in the spotlight.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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There’s an effort from the developer, Far Out Games, to tell a captivating noirish story here but the cutscenes and dialogue are painfully dull.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The bristles of the brush manually sweep away dull, rough, flaky skin cells.—
Angela Palmer,
Verywell Health,
20 May 2025
Noun
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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 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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Of course, all that excitement does get tiring after a while, and the dogs in side B eventually wind down for a brief nap.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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At-home blowouts are hard; even when armed with the right tutorials and top-of-the-line tools, all the maneuvering gets tiring quickly.—
Kylee McGuigan,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Those collectibles may well hold signs of past life on that enigmatic, dusty and foreboding world.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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The days of my girlhood were dusty, dirty, sooty, and sweaty.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Albon asked Williams for information on where Leclerc was likely slow at the restart, looking for a spot to capitalize.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Life has likely felt a bit nebulous and slow for you in the past year, Cancer.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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The Upgrade Lounge will be open in the mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm ET, and again in the evenings from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm ET—but weary travelers who miss these windows can still relax in the lounge’s cushy couches and swivel chairs outside of operating hours.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
21 May 2025
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Now, the Entity intends to annihilate humanity in four days unless it can be taken offline by a key that accesses a gizmo in the Arctic Sea that connects to a whatsit that Ving Rhames’s weary Luther is attempting to invent from a makeshift hospital bed somewhere in the subway tunnels of London.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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“Drab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drab. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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