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causing dejection
e.g. a blue day
e.g. the dark days of the war
e.g. a week of rainy depressing weather
e.g. a disconsolate winter landscape
e.g. the first dismal dispiriting days of November
e.g. a dark gloomy day
e.g. grim rainy weather
Synonym: blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy grim sorry drear dreary
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of a light brownish green color
Synonym: olive-drab
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lacking brightness or color
dull
e.g. drab faded curtains
e.g. sober Puritan grey
e.g. children in somber brown clothes
Synonym: sober somber sombre
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lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
e.g. her drab personality
e.g. life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
e.g. a series of dreary dinner parties
Synonym: dreary