humdrum

humdrum
Synonyms and related words:
alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, assonance, assonant, banal, banausic, belabored, blah, bore, boring, broken record, broken-record, buttonholer, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden, common, commonplace, crashing bore, dim, dingdong, drab, drag, drearisome, dreary, drip, drone, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, everlasting, flat, flat tire, frightful bore, gray, harping, headache, insipid, invariability, invariable, irk, irksomeness, jejune, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, long-winded, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, mundane, near rhyme, nuisance, ordinary, pedestrian, pest, pill, pitter-patter, plain, plodding, poetryless, prolix, prosaic, proser, prosing, prosy, repeated sounds, repetitious, repetitiousness, repetitive, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, routine, same, sameliness, samely, sameness, singsong, slant rhyme, stale repetition, stodgy, tedious, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, tiresome, treadmill, trot, twaddler, unchanging, undeviation, undiversified, unembellished, uneventful, unexciting, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unnecessary repetition, unpoetic, unrelieved, unromantic, unvariation, unvaried, unvarying, vapid, wearisome, wearisome sameness, wet blanket

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Humdrum — Hum drum , a. Monotonous; dull; commonplace. A humdrum crone. Bryant. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Humdrum — Hum drum , n. 1. A dull fellow; a bore. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. Monotonous and tedious routine. [1913 Webster] Dissatisfied with humdrum. The Nation. [1913 Webster] 3. A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • humdrum — [hum′drum΄] adj. [echoic extension (infl. by DRUM1) of HUM1] lacking variety; dull; monotonous; boring n. humdrum talk, routine, etc.; monotony …   English World dictionary

  • Humdrum — is an animated short film directed by Peter Peake. It was released in 1998 and produced by Aardman Animations and received an Oscar nomination for Animated Short Film and a BAFTA nomination in the same category. Plot summaryThe film features two… …   Wikipedia

  • humdrum — index ordinary, prosaic, stale, usual Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • humdrum — adj *dull, dreary, monotonous, pedestrian, stodgy Analogous words: *irksome, tiresome, wearisome, tedious, boring …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • humdrum — [adj] boring, uneventful arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen*, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden variety*, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious …   New thesaurus

  • humdrum — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ dull or monotonous. ► NOUN ▪ monotonous routine. ORIGIN probably a reduplication of HUM(Cf. ↑hummer) …   English terms dictionary

  • humdrum — [[t]hʌ̱mdrʌm[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone or something as humdrum, you mean that they are ordinary, dull, or boring. ...her lawyer husband, trapped in a humdrum but well paid job... The new government seemed rather… …   English dictionary

  • humdrum — /ˈhʌmdrʌm / (say humdrum) adjective 1. lacking variety; dull: a humdrum existence. –noun 2. humdrum character or routine; monotony. 3. monotonous or tedious talk. 4. a dull boring person. {varied reduplication of hum1} …  

  • humdrum — humdrumness, n. /hum drum /, adj. 1. lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence. n. 2. humdrum character or routine; monotony. 3. monotonous or tedious talk. 4. Archaic. a dull, boring person. [1545 55; earlier humtrum, rhyming compound… …   Universalium

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