olive vs olive drab

olive drab vs olive

olive and olive drab both are nouns.

olive is an adjective but olive drab is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
olive	Yes	Yes	No	No
olive drab	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, olive drab is a hyponym of olive; that is, olive drab is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than olive:

olive: a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
olive drab: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

Other hyponyms of olive include drab.

olive (noun)	olive drab (noun)
a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation	a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms
one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish	military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color
evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits	a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

olive (adjective)	olive drab (adjective)
of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

Difference between olive and olive drab

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