Drab vs. Insipid — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drab and Insipid
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Drab
Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
Insipid
Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless
Mugs of insipid coffee
Drab
Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
Insipid
Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty
Insipid soup.
Drab
Faded and dull in appearance.
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Insipid
Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.
Drab
Dull or commonplace in character; dreary
A drab personality.
Insipid
Unappetizingly flavorless.
The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
Drab
A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
Insipid
Flat; lacking character or definition.
The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.
Drab
Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
Insipid
Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
Drab
A slovenly woman; a slattern.
Insipid
Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him.
But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid.
Drab
A woman prostitute.
Insipid
Lacking taste or flavor or tang;
A bland diet
Insipid hospital food
Flavorless supermarket tomatoes
Vapid beer
Vapid tea
Drab
A negligible amount
Finished the work in dribs and drabs.
Insipid
Lacking significance or impact;
An insipid novel
Drab
To consort with prostitutes
"Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs" (Stanislaus Joyce).
Insipid
Lacking interest or significance;
An insipid personality
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Drab
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
Insipid
Not pleasing to the sense of taste
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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