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drab
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[ adjective ] lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Synonyms Examples "her drab personality" "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas" "a series of dreary dinner parties" Used in print (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)`` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us , at the end of the day , fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing , practical , utilitarian concern of common-sense objects . I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality_of_life without literature and a life enriched by it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (color) lacking brightness or color; dull
Examples "drab faded curtains" "sober Puritan gray" "children in somber brown clothes" Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Burly leathered men and wrinkled women in drab black rags carried_on in a primitive way , almost unchanged from feudal times . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] depressing in character or appearance
Examples "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 Related terms |
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