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Adjective drab has 3 senses
- drab, dreary - lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
Antonym: lively (indirect, via dull)
- drab, sober, somber, sombre - lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
Antonyms: colorful, colourful (indirect, via colorless)
- dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry - depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
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