Drab vs. Dreary — What's the Difference?

Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.

Dismal; bleak.

Of a light olive brown or khaki color.

Boring; dull

Faded and dull in appearance.

Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

Dull or commonplace in character; dreary

(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.

A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.

Sorrowful; distressful.

Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.

Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

A slovenly woman; a slattern.

Depressing in character or appearance;

A woman prostitute.

Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;

A negligible amount

To consort with prostitutes

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

The colour of this fabric.

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

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

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

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

A small amount, especially of money.

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

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).

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

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

To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

A low, sluttish woman.

A lewd wench; a strumpet.

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

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

A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

To associate with strumpets; to wench.

Of a color between gray and brown.

Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;

Lacking brightness or color; dull;

Depressing in character or appearance;