olive drab

Questions about olive drab

What does olive drab mean?

olive drab means "a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for olive drab?

Close synonyms include drab, olive-drab uniform. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olive drab a common word?

olive drab is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.