The Clue
Lackluster (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DRAB
Tags
Notes
The answer DRAB is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blah
Cheerless
Colorless
Dreary
Dull
Humdrum
Monotonous
Mousy
Olive ___
Unexciting
Uninteresting
Dull-colored
Dull and dingy
Dully colored
Evoking an "eh"
Far from festive
Ho-hum
Lacking brightness
Part of o.d.
Brown family member
Evoking a "ho-hum"
Not very bright
Olive ___ (uniform color)
Yellowish-brown wool
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"