drab

IPA: drˈæb

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.
(LGBT, slang) 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).

Examples of "drab" in Sentences

The language is difficult to understand and it is just plain drab to read.
I was often told to cut my hair, to wear shorter heels, to dress in drab colors.
Lasting sometimes for days in drab locales, drizzle can move large amounts of water from the atmosphere.
I objected to the fact that most movies, even period movies, show the poor people in drab colors and torn costumes.
A young student of Germans and Jews, supporting himself on grant money and dressed warmly in drab sidewalk grays, beset by his ideas and his passion, he announces, “They are an immoral gaggle of sleazy, lying, undemocratic and dangerous, ulterior motive-driven despots.”
The streets were dominated by men in drab clothes; boys carried trays of coffee and tea into offices; and the bus station was a jumble of produce stands amid lines of vehicles departing at no particular time — no disadvantage for me, because this was a traditional society in which strangers are immediately looked after.