drab

drab is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A low, sluttish woman. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A low, sluttish woman.
2. noun. A lewd wench; a strumpet.
3. noun. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
4. intransitive verb. To associate with strumpets; to wench.
5. noun. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
6. noun. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
7. adjective. Of a color between gray and brown.
8. noun. A drab color.
9. noun. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
10. adjective. causing dejection

    "a blue day"

    "the dark days of the war"

    Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

11. adjective. of a light brownish green color
12. adjective. lacking brightness or color; dull

    "drab faded curtains"

    "sober Puritan grey"

    Synonyms: sober, somber, sombre

13. adjective. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

    "her drab personality"

    "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"

    Synonyms: dreary

Synonyms

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, sober, somber, sombre

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in drab:

bard, brad, darb

Common word forms

drabs, drably, drabbed, drabber, drabbest, drabbing, drabness

Words from these letters

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