DISMAL vs DRAB: NOUN
- Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.
- See extract and etymology.
- Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
- Plural Mourning-garments.
- A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.
- The devil.
- A kind of wooden box used in salt-works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling-pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining, that the water may drain off.
- A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
- A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
- A woman prostitute.
- A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee.
- A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
- A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
- A negligible amount.
- A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A lewd wench; a strumpet.
- A low, sluttish woman.
- A strumpet; a prostitute.
- A slut; a slattern.
- An English collectors' name for a number of noctuid moths of a drab color: as, the clouded drab, Tæniocampa instabilis; the northern drab, T. opima; the lead-colored drab, T. populeti.
- A yellowish-gray tint.
- A thick woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color.
- A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
- Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
- A slovenly woman; a slattern.
DISMAL vs DRAB: ADJECTIVE
- Depressing.
- Gloomy and bleak.
- Disappointingly inadequate.
- Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
- Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
- Dreadful; disastrous.
- Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit.
- Causing gloom or depression; dreary.
- Depressing in character or appearance
- Causing dejection
- Faded and dull in appearance.
- Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
- Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
- Depressing in character or appearance
- Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- Lacking brightness or color; dull
- Dull or commonplace in character; dreary: : dull.
- Causing dejection
- Of a light brownish green color
- Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
- Of a color between gray and brown.
DISMAL vs DRAB: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To consort with prostitutes.
- To associate with strumpets; to wench.
DISMAL vs DRAB: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To feel dismal or melancholy.
- Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.
- Dull
- Lacking brightness or color
- To associate with strumpets.
- Of a yellowish-gray color, like the cloth so called.
DISMAL vs DRAB: RELATED WORDS
- Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy
- Humdrum, Uncheerful, Sorry, Colourless, Sober, Somber, Dismal, Sombre, Colorless, Gloomy, Drear, Dingy, Cheerless, Dull, Dreary
DISMAL vs DRAB: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy
- Humdrum, Uncheerful, Sorry, Colourless, Sober, Somber, Dismal, Sombre, Colorless, Gloomy, Drear, Dingy, Cheerless, Dull, Dreary
DISMAL vs DRAB: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- So Whatevoked this sense of a dismal tide.
- The success rate for second marriages is dismal.
- Outside the Church, we are in dismal straights.
- The bank rates a dismal F on BBB.
- My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
- The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is a paved, heavily wooded pathway along the eastern border of Dismal Swamp State Park.
- Dismal Swamp, it made me feel very dismal as I looked at it.
- Undue inducements and reasonable risks: Will the dismal science lead to dismal research ethics?
- Word of the Day: Dismal Dismal adj Gloomy.
- Dismal, but not utterly dismal, is still dismal in my book.
- Infantry, especially skirmishers, often wore drab civilian clothes.
- Olive Drab Cadmium plating options ensure connector longevity.
- Juliet makes to the Friar, is indeed drab.
- Interior a bit drab for our tastes, though.
- Form Templates and go from drab to WOW!
- Plan is friendly but also a bit drab.
- Army vehicles had a base coat of lusterless olive drab paint, the olive drab military vehicle paint that had its own variations and evolution.
- For a genre that is often filled with drab characters in a drab world, it is refreshing to see something so well fleshed out.
- They used their talents to camouflage themselves in drab colors, which then began to run together and blend into a uniform, drab gray.
- Yellow Olive Drab US Navy Vintage Olive Drab White.
DISMAL vs DRAB: QUESTIONS
- How did the Great Dismal Swamp affect the native tribes?
- What does Juliet mean when she says my dismal scene I Need?
- How did the Dismal Swamp Canal connect North Carolina and Virginia?
- How big is the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?
- How did the Great Dismal Swamp become a National Park?
- How many invertebrates are there in the Great Dismal Swamp?
- Where did Sayers first hear about the Dismal Swamp maroons?
- What is the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?
- Where can I get tickets for AFI bodies tour 2022 Drab Majesty?
- Does the British Army use olive drab or NATO Green?
- Why do male guppies become increasingly drab over generations?