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The Clue

Grayish (4 letter answer)

The Answer

DRAB

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Notes

The answer DRAB is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.

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Unexciting
Uninteresting
Dull-colored
Dull and dingy
Dull as dishwater
Evoking an "eh"
Hardly colorful
Lacking brightness
Lacking color
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Brown family member
Evoking a "ho-hum"
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Void of any va-va-voom

Definition

DRAB as a noun:

1. (olive drab, drab) = a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

DRAB as an adjective:

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. (drab, sober, somber, sombre) = lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
3. (olive-drab, drab) = of a light brownish green color
4. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, 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"