olive-drab

1. 1.

   of a light brownish green color

   Synonymsdrab

   Similarchromatic

Questions about olive-drab

What does olive-drab mean?

olive-drab means "of a light brownish green color".

How many syllables are in olive-drab?

olive-drab has 4 syllables: o-li-ve--drab. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for olive-drab?

Close synonyms include drab. 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 "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.