A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown.

synonym: olive drab.

Roget 653: uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity^†, immundicity^†; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; defoedation^†; soilure^†, soiliness^†; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture^†; fetor etc. 401^†.    decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo^†.    slovenry^†; slovenliness etc. adj.; squalor.    dowdy, drab, slut, malkin^†, slattern, sloven, slammerkin^†, slammock^†, slummock^†, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark^†, dust-man, sweep; beast.    dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff^†; sossle^†, sozzle^†.    sordes^†, dregs, grounds, lees; argol^†; sediment, settlement heeltap^†; dross, drossiness^†; mother^†, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.    recrement^†, slag; scum, froth.    hogwash; ditchwater^†, dishwater, bilgewater^†; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings^†, outscourings^†; off scum; caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff^†; scurf, scurfiness^†; exuviae [Lat.], morphea; fur, furfur^†; dandruff, tartar.    riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch^†.    mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.].    spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery^†; garbage, carrion; excreta etc. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria^†; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.    dunghill, colluvies^†, mixen^†, midden, bog, laystall^†, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess^†, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.    sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable^†, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.    ... show more

Roget 962: libertine; voluptuary etc. 954.1; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell^†, fast man; intrigant^†, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard^†, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard^†; chartered libertine.    adulteress, advoutress^†, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie [Fr.]; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece [Fr.]; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull^†, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean^†, mopsy^†, slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue etc. (unchaste) 961; wanton, fornicatress^†; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia^†, Lais, lorette^†, cocotte^†, petite dame, grisette^†; demimonde; chippy [U.S.]; sapphist^†; spiritual wife; white slave.    concubine, mistress, doxy^†, chere amie [Fr.], bona roba [It].    pimp, procurer; pander, pandar^†; bawd, conciliatrix^†, procuress^†, mackerel, wittol^†.    ... show more

Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise:
— Her drab personality.
— Life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas.

synonym: dreary.

Lacking brightness or color; dull:
— Drab faded curtains.

synonyms: sober, somber, sombre.

Roget 432: gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous^†; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous^†, cineritious^†; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.    ... show more

Polish: spokojniutki, spokojny

Of a light brownish green color.

synonym: olive-drab.

Causing dejection.

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

Polish: mroczny