Difference between Drab and Drear

DRAB vs DREAR: NOUN

A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
A negligible amount.
A slovenly woman; a slattern.
A woman prostitute.
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 yellowish-gray tint.
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 slut; a slattern.
A strumpet; a prostitute.
A low, sluttish woman.
A lewd wench; a strumpet.
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee.
A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
A thick woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color.

Humdrum, Uncheerful, Sorry, Colourless, Sober, Somber, Dismal, Sombre, Colorless, Gloomy, Drear, Dingy, Cheerless, Dull, Dreary

Stygian, Wintry, Twilit, Comfortless, Melancholy, Dreich, Gloom, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dismal, Dingy, Gloomy, Drab, Cheerless, Dreary

Humdrum, Uncheerful, Sorry, Colourless, Sober, Somber, Dismal, Sombre, Colorless, Gloomy, Drear, Dingy, Cheerless, Dull, Dreary

Stygian, Wintry, Twilit, Comfortless, Melancholy, Dreich, Gloom, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dismal, Dingy, Gloomy, Drab, Cheerless, Dreary

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.

Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening inights of the whole drear month of November.
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
The sins of manhood follow upon those of adolescence with drear inevitability.
Despite the drear weather lately, the deck decor is coming together!
That the Lord is near, when my path is drear, For.
So deep, so drear a woe to me!
Anybody may reduce earth to a desert drear for himself; but this is quite another matter.
Or what drear comet spreads infectious fires, And seals the lips, that poetry inspires?
Grey London is our own Victorian England, drear, industrial, and devoid of magic.
Winter cold and drear holds no sway over this soulful combination.