Drab vs. Khaki — What's the Difference?

Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.

Khaki (UK: , US: ) is a color, a light shade of brown with a yellowish tinge. Khaki has been used by many armies around the world for uniforms, including camouflage.

Of a light olive brown or khaki color.

A strong cotton or wool fabric of a dull brownish-yellow colour, used especially in military clothing

Faded and dull in appearance.

A dull greenish or brownish-yellow colour

Dull or commonplace in character; dreary

A light olive brown to moderate or light yellowish brown.

A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.

A sturdy cloth of this color.

Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.

Khakis A uniform made of this cloth.

A slovenly woman; a slattern.

Khakis Pants made of a twilled cotton fabric of this color or another solid color.

A woman prostitute.

A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.

A negligible amount

Khaki green, a dull green colour.

To consort with prostitutes

A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.

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

(rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.

The colour of this fabric.

A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops, originally in the Second Boer War; compare rooinek). In this sense the plural generally is khakies.

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

(often in plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.

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

Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.

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

Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; - applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army.

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

Any kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or, rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field.

A small amount, especially of money.

A sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms

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

Of a yellowish brown color

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;