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• n  having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance

• Craig Gillespie's direction is a little too attentive to the physical drabness of the setting, the slow pulse of north-country life, the locals' constipated cordiality.
• Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock .
• STEPPING OUT: Chen Yifei's haute couture is a departure from the drabness of socialism and the gaudiness of sudden wealth.

• dowdiness
• homeliness

News & Articles

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• BU alum launches project to spruce up ‘drab’ classroom desks
  Hila Landesman certainly isn’t the first person to complain about the drabness of college classrooms, but the former Boston University student did something about it.
  Oct. 24, 2013 - The Brookline Tab

Quotes

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• Howard Schultz in Inquirer.net
  Schultz says, "One thing I've noticed about romantics: They try to create a new and better world from the drabness of everyday life. That is Starbuck's aim, too. We try to create, in our stores, an oasis, a little neighborhood spot where you can...