Synonyms of the word

drab

• adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
• n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
• n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
• n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
• n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
• n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

cheerless

• adj. devoid of cheer; gloomy.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

colorless

• adj. American standard spelling of colourless.

colourless

• adj. Having little or no colour.
• adj. (of a liquid) Water white.
• adj. Lacking in interest or variety.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

depressing

• adj. Causing depression or sadness.
• adj. Causing a reduction in economic activity.
• v. present participle of depress.

dingy

• adj. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.
• n. Alternative form of dinghy.

disconsolate

• adj. Cheerless, dreary.
• adj. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• n. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

dismal

• adj. Disappointingly inadequate.
• adj. Gloomy and bleak.
• adj. Depressing.

dispiriting

• adj. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
• v. present participle of dispirit.

drear

• adj. (poetic) Dreary.
• n. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

dreary

• adj. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
• adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

gloomy

• adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
• adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

olive

• n. An evergreen tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and…
• n. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
• n. The wood of the olive tree.
• n. A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
• n. (anatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
• n. A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed…
• n. (cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
• n. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
• n. (Britain, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.
• adj. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

sober

• adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
• adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
• adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
• adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
• adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
• v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
• v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

somber

• adj. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
• adj. Dark, lacking color or brightness.
• v. Alternative form of sombre.

sombre

• adj. Dark; gloomy.
• adj. Dull or dark in colour.
• adj. Melancholy; dismal.
• adj. Grave.
• n. (obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
• v. To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

sorry

• adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
• adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
• interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
• interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
• interj. Used to correct oneself in speech.
• n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.

uncheerful

• adj. Not cheerful.