Synonyms for drab

Adjective

1. drab, dreary, dull (vs. lively)

usage: 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"

2. drab, sober, somber, sombre, colorless (vs. colorful), colourless

usage: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"

3. dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry, cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful

usage: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams