Crossword clues for drabber
drabber
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drabber \Drab"ber\, n.
One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
--Massinger.
Wiktionary
(en-comparative of: drab) n. 1 A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more dra
2 (context obsolete English) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: dreary]
lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes" [syn: sober, somber, sombre]
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 [syn: dingy, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry]
See drab
Usage examples of "drabber".
Occupying an advantageous position at the corner of Duke Street and Piccadilly, it gave the impression that a palace of some kind had been dropped there by a gang of knackered djinn, and then been soldered on to the drabber buildings alongside.
He tried finding shaded cafeterias in the drabber parts of Los Angeles, where there was no possibility of encountering old acquaintances.
About the only really strong change was that it was a bit drabber, with everybody in some sort of service uniform and everything a dull military gray, including his central admissions desk, from which he monitored the entry areas and also dispensed information and clearances through his computer keyboard.
But he didn't pull away, and we dutifully exposed our shivering limbs to the elements long enough to reverse our colorful players plumage to its drabber inner linings.
If anything, Stocken's new annexe was even drabber than its older counterparts.
The houses got smaller and smaller, and even in the darkness she could also see that the gardens got drabber and the cars parked along the street had more dents and scrapes than those in the hills.
It was another human, an oddly familiar figure clad in drab gray that was all the drabber by contrast with the gaudy plumage of the port officials who accompanied him.
This was just another story, after all, drabber, less entertaining, than those the boy liked.
But Randy continued to pick out their turns, and the speed and apparent confidence of her choices increased as the streets grew drabber and less traveled.