英：[dræbnəs]
美：[dræbnəs]
drabness如何读
drabness是什么意思
- n.乏味
drabness词根
词根：drab
adj.drab 单调的；土褐色的
adv.drably 单调乏味地；无生气地
n.drab 浅褐色；无生气；邋遢；小额
vi.drab 嫖妓
vt.drab 使无生气
drabness英英释义
noun (1)
slattern
prostitute
verb
intransitive verb
to associate with prostitutes
a waster, an idler; drinking and drabbing—Aldous Huxley
noun (2)
textiles any of various cloths of a dull brown or gray color
dressed in drabs
a light olive brown
a dull, lifeless, or faded appearance or quality
adjective
of the dull brown color of drab (see drab entry 3 sense 1)
of a light olive brown color : of the color drab (see drab entry 3 sense 2a)
characterized by dullness and monotony : cheerless drab industrial buildings
a drab life
noun (3)
a small amount—usually used in the phrase dribs and drabs
receiving donations in dribs and drabs
drabness词源英文解释
Noun (1) origin unknown Verb noun derivative of drab >entry 1 Noun (2) and Adjective Middle French drap cloth, from Late Latin drappus Noun (3) probably alteration of drib
The first known use of drab was circa 1515
drabness儿童词典英英释义
draft1 of 3noun
the act of pulling or hauling
the thing or amount pulled
the act or an instance of drinking or inhalingalso: the portion drunk or inhaled at one time
something represented in words or lines : design, plan
a quick sketch, outline, or version from which a final work is produced
a rough draft of the essay
the act of drawing out liquid (as from a barrel)
a portion of liquid drawn out
the depth of water required for a ship to float when loaded
a picking of persons for required military service
an order (as a check) issued by one party to another (as a bank) to pay money to a third party
a current of air
a device to regulate an air supply (as in a stove)
draft2 of 3adjective
used for pulling loads
draft animals
being a version to be finished later
a draft treaty
being or having been on draft
draft beer
draft3 of 3verb
to pick especially for required military service
to make a draft of : outline
draft a plan
to put into written form
draft an essay
draft1 of 3noun
the act of pulling or hauling
the thing or amount pulled
the act or an instance of drinking or inhalingalso: the portion drunk or inhaled at one time
something represented in words or lines : design, plan
a quick sketch, outline, or version from which a final work is produced
a rough draft of the essay
the act of drawing out liquid (as from a barrel)
a portion of liquid drawn out
the depth of water required for a ship to float when loaded
a picking of persons for required military service
an order (as a check) issued by one party to another (as a bank) to pay money to a third party
a current of air
a device to regulate an air supply (as in a stove)
draft2 of 3adjective
used for pulling loads
draft animals
being a version to be finished later
a draft treaty
being or having been on draft
draft beer
draft3 of 3verb
to pick especially for required military service
to make a draft of : outline
draft a plan
to put into written form
draft an essay
draft1 of 3noun
the act of pulling or hauling
the thing or amount pulled
the act or an instance of drinking or inhalingalso: the portion drunk or inhaled at one time
something represented in words or lines : design, plan
a quick sketch, outline, or version from which a final work is produced
a rough draft of the essay
the act of drawing out liquid (as from a barrel)
a portion of liquid drawn out
the depth of water required for a ship to float when loaded
a picking of persons for required military service
an order (as a check) issued by one party to another (as a bank) to pay money to a third party
a current of air
a device to regulate an air supply (as in a stove)
draft2 of 3adjective
used for pulling loads
draft animals
being a version to be finished later
a draft treaty
being or having been on draft
draft beer
draft3 of 3verb
to pick especially for required military service
to make a draft of : outline
draft a plan
to put into written form
draft an essay
drachmanoun
any of various ancient Greek units of weight
an ancient Greek silver coin
the former basic unit of money of Greecealso: a coin representing this unit
drachmanoun
any of various ancient Greek units of weight
an ancient Greek silver coin
the former basic unit of money of Greecealso: a coin representing this unit
dracaenanoun
any of a genus of trees or shrubs that are related to the lilies, have branches with bunches of sword-shaped leaves at the ends, and bear clusters of small greenish white flowers
drab1 of 2noun
a light olive brown
drab2 of 2adjective
of the color drab
lacking variety and interest : dull
a drab life
drabness 例句
1 “From motives inscrutable to his friends, the author of Living chooses to publish his work under a pseudonym of peculiar drabness,” he wrote.
2 So does the juxtaposition of the rhythms of agricultural labor and beauty of the Northwestern landscape with the standardized drabness of parking lots and big-box stores.
3 Unexpected Palette Neon stripes are tamed with mustard trim, a combo that balances wildness with drabness.
4 Argentina’s Riachuelo River, which originates some sixty kilometres west of Buenos Aires and snakes around the city’s southern edge, is legendary for its drabness.
5 Set in the everyday drabness of Bucharest or other, even less glamorous Romanian cities, they turn the grievances, frustrations and hopes of ordinary people into deadpan philosophical case studies.
6 Or so we have been taught: that lushness equals splendor, that when a blossom wilts and fails, the plant that bore it is finished, returned to drabness, spent of purpose.
7 But the enormous alligator juniper has a history that transcends its drab catalog callout.
8 They are impatient with drabness and proud to assert their national identity—not to say their buying power.
9 After a couple of years of relative drabness, this feels like a proper meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
10 Its unrelenting visual drabness only adds to the unfortunate sense that while the end will come soon for the characters, it isn’t coming anywhere near fast enough.
11 "He was brought out of the colour and excitement of India, which he clearly loved, to the drabness of Southsea and foster parents who treated him badly," says Kipling biographer Andrew Lycett.
12 Muggeridge had already upset him by complaining of the “inherent drabness” of Volume 7 of “Dance” and bemoaning its narrator’s “snobbishness.”
13 There was the drabness, and the trauma of the war, of Stalinism, which was also a big trauma, but there was a kind of vivacity, and it seeps through in “Ida” a bit.
14 Amid this drabness, though, was a surprising little oasis.
在这令人乏味的市场里, 却还是有令人惊奇的小绿洲.
15 It used color as a weapon against hippie drabness.
16 “With her higher-than-high hemlines, colorful tights and masculine tailored trousers, she helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new attitude to dressing.”
17 “In these times that follow the war, people are reading fiction to ‘get away’ from the drabness of everyday existence,” said Sir Ernest.
18 She decided to concentrate on Chongjin because it is likely to be more representative than Pyongyang, where, for all its drabness and endless power shortages, nobody is starving.
19 The Communist drabness of those days, it seems, fostered in Guo Pei a desire for beauty.
20 For Broodthaers, Brussels’s drabness and smallness was part of its artistic appeal.