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Drab vs. Insipid — What's the Difference?

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
Jejune novel

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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