The Clue
Olive ___ (uniform material) (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DRAB
Tags
Notes
The answer DRAB is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
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Blah
Cheerless
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Dreary
Dull
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Humdrum
Lackluster
Monotonous
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Olive ___
Prosaic
Unexciting
Uninteresting
Dull-colored
Dull and dingy
Dull as dishwater
Dully colored
Far from festive
Hardly colorful
Hardly exciting
Ho-hum
Lacking brightness
Lacking color
Brown family member
Olive ___ (uniform color)
Yellowish-brown wool
Olive ___ (uniform material)
In need of some color
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"