Not colorful
The crossword clue "Not colorful" is answered by DRAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DRAB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRAB answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DRAB
Every other clue in this collection answered by DRAB, most used first.
- Colorless - used 94 times, most recently in 2025
- Dull-colored - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Lackluster - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Dull in color - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Dull - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Cheerless - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
- Dull as dishwater - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
- Dreary - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Blah - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Ho-hum - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Humdrum - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Uninteresting - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Monotonous. - used 13 times, most recently in 1986
- Not very bright - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardly colorful - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Olive ___ - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
- Lacking color - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Far from colorful - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Lacking in liveliness - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Boring - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Far from flashy - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Lacking brightness - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Lacking pizazz - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Uninspiring - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Dull and dreary - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Olive ___ (uniform color) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexciting - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Boring, colorwise - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Hardly exciting - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Hardly vibrant - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Washed out - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
- Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
- If not - ELSE, used 199 times
- Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times
- Not pro - ANTI, used 172 times
- Not so much - LESS, used 171 times
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