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单词 drably-clad
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drably-clad
ˈdrably adv. in drab colour; also figurative, without brightness or colour, dully, uninterestingly; in combination, as drably-clad, drably-tinted.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured
wannish?a1412
colourless1557
sullena1586
sober1603
dingy1665
dunduckety1818
duckety1841
drabbish1842
neutral-tinted1844
drabby1862
drab1880
drably-tinted1891
terne1901
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner
irksomely1549
tediously1557
leaden-like1574
drearily1579
dully1600
Welshly1629
unlively1641
woodenly1653
stupidly1723
uninterestingly1793
soporifically1807
sloomy1820
wearyingly1829
boringly1840
tiresomely1847
aridly1883
drably1891
stuffily1894
stodgily1904
yawnsomely1908
yawnfully1914
1891 H. C. Halliday Someone must Suffer II. xii. 217 That drably-tinted lady.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 10/1 Few guess that the dahlia..has had a drably unromantic origin.
1918 Cornhill Mag. June 616 The desirability of expressing thoughts fully and truly in words..is too drably presented to the child.
1927 Sunday Express 1 May 9 Their novels look drably old-fashioned.
1956 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 216 The sun's interior must be drably uniform.
extracted from drabn.2adj.n.
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