Difference between Dreary and Drab

DREARY vs DRAB: NOUN

A woman prostitute.
A slovenly woman; a slattern.
A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
A negligible amount.
A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee.
Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
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 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 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 dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.

Causing dejection
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
Grievous, dire; appalling.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Sorrowful; distressful.
Boring; dull.
Dismal; bleak.
Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Depressing in character or appearance

Sorrowful; sad.
Lonesomely dismal or gloomy; exciting a feeling of desolation, sadness, or gloom.
Hence Exciting a feeling of tedium or ennui; tiresomely monotonous: as, a dreary book.
Synonyms and Cheerless, comfortless, drear, dark. Tedious.

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

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

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

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

January when it was cooler and dreary outside.
How dreary for Stefan, saw him and jumped.
Who would not shun the dreary uncouth place?
How dreary and comfortless to be a peasant!
It is still a damp and dreary day.
Buckingham Palace loomed up unlighted, huge and dreary.
Dull, dry and dreary, to say the least.
Oh, I'll trade you dreary London for dreary California any day of the week-on our 9th straight day of rain.
Be as dreary as if there were no Virginias alas, how dreary would be as dreary as there.
Yalta and I am dreary, very dreary indeed.

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.