1. (

• drab ,
• dreary

) 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" ;

2. (

• blue ,
• dark ,
• dingy ,
• disconsolate ,
• dismal ,
• gloomy ,
• grim ,
• sorry ,
• drab ,
• drear ,
• dreary

) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" ;