without interest or colour; boring 单调乏味的；无光彩的；无生气的 She longed to be out of the cold, drab little office. 她渴望离开那个冷冰冰的小办公室。 drab women, dressed in browns and greys 身着棕灰二色衣服毫无光彩的女人
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2She looked drab and ordinary today. 她今天显得很单调和平凡。 The costumes were pretty drab. 服装很单调。 several depressingly drab paintings 几幅令人沮丧的单调绘画 the drab grey walls of the prison 监狱的灰褐色墙壁 their drab little lives 他们单调的小生活 She was led through the drab corridors of the administration block. 她被带过行政区的阴暗走廊。 They found the world drab and depressing. 他们发现世界单调和令人沮丧。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDrab is used with these nouns:- brown
More Like This Consonant-doubling adjectivesConsonant-doubling adjectivesWord Originmid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting ‘undyed cloth’): probably from Old French drap ‘cloth’, from late Latin drappus.