Difference between Sombre and Drab

What is the difference between Sombre and Drab?

Sombre as an adjective is dark; gloomy. while Drab as an adjective is dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour

Sombre

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Dark; gloomy. Dull or dark in colour. Melancholy; dismal. Grave.

Drab

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a sluta lewd wench; a strumpet; a prostitutea wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

We hope you now know whether to use Sombre or Drab in your sentence.

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