drab

Adjective

• causing dejection
  • a blue day
    
  • the dark days of the war
    
  • a week of rainy depressing weather
    
  • a disconsolate winter landscape
    
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
    
  • a dark gloomy day
    
  • grim rainy weather
    

• of a light brownish green color

• lacking brightness or color; dull
  • drab faded curtains
    
  • sober Puritan grey
    
  • children in somber brown clothes
    

• 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
    

Noun

• a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  olive-drab , sober , somber , sombre , dreary , olive drab