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Colourless vs. Drab — What's the Difference?

Colourless vs. Drab — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Colourless and Drab

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Colourless

Having little or no colour.

Drab

Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.

Colourless

(of a liquid) Water white.

Drab

Of a light olive brown or khaki color.

Colourless

Lacking in interest or variety.
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Drab

Faded and dull in appearance.

Colourless

Lacking in variety and interest;
A colorless and unimaginative person
A colorless description of the parade

Drab

Dull or commonplace in character; dreary
A drab personality.

Colourless

Weak in color; not colorful

Drab

A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.

Drab

Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.

Drab

A slovenly woman; a slattern.

Drab

A woman prostitute.

Drab

A negligible amount
Finished the work in dribs and drabs.

Drab

To consort with prostitutes
"Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs" (Stanislaus Joyce).

Drab

A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.

Drab

The colour of this fabric.

Drab

Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.

Drab

(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.

Drab

(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.

Drab

(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.

Drab

A small amount, especially of money.

Drab

A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

Drab

An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).

Drab

Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

Drab

(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.

Drab

To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

Drab

A low, sluttish woman.

Drab

A lewd wench; a strumpet.

Drab

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

Drab

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; - called also drabcloth.

Drab

A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab

To associate with strumpets; to wench.

Drab

Of a color between gray and brown.

Drab

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

Drab

Lacking brightness or color; dull;
Drab faded curtains
Sober Puritan gray
Children in somber brown clothes

Drab

Depressing in character or appearance;
Drove through dingy streets
The dismal prison twilight
Drab old buildings
A dreary mining town
Gloomy tenements
Sorry routine that follows on the heels of death

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