drably

1. 1.

   in a drab manner

   “she dresses drably”

Questions about drably

What does drably mean?

drably means "in a drab manner".

How many syllables are in drably?

drably has 2 syllables and divides as dra-bly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is drably a common word?

drably is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.