Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.
blah — ☆ blah [blä ] Slang n. [echoic] boring, predictable, or nonsensical talk or writing interj. used, usually repeated one or more times, to suggest such talk or writing, esp. when it continues for a long time [and the speaker went on, blah, blah,… … English World dictionary
blah — /blah/, Slang. n. 1. nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah. 2. the blahs, a feeling of physical uneasiness, general discomfort, or mild depression; malaise: After the long weekend many workers had the Monday morning blahs. adj. 3. insipid;… … Universalium
blah — 1. noun a) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. b) (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction … Wiktionary
blah — blah1 S2 [bla:] n [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: From the sound of empty talk] 1.) blah, blah, blah spoken used when you do not need to complete what you are saying because it is boring or because the person you are talking to already knows it ▪ You… … Dictionary of contemporary English
blah — blah1 [ bla ] noun uncount INFORMAL used instead of a word or thing on a list when it is not important to say exactly what that word or thing will be blah, blah, blah SPOKEN used for completing a sentence when you do not have to be definite or… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
blah — I. noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1918 1. (also blah blah) silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense 2. plural [perhaps influenced in meaning by blasé] a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction II. adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
blah — [[t]blɑ[/t]] inf 1) sts meaningless chatter; nonsense 2) cvb sts the blahs, a feeling of physical uneasiness, general discomfort, or mild depression; malaise 3) dull; uninteresting • Etymology: 1915–20; imit … From formal English to slang
dullness — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, absence of color, acedia, achromaticity, achromatism, adynamia, aloofness, analgesia, anemia, anesthesia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, aridity, aridness, ashiness, asininity, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony,… … Moby Thesaurus
listlessness — Synonyms and related words: accidia, acedia, adynamia, aloofness, anemia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony, benumbedness, blah, blah feeling, blahs, bloodlessness, boredom, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, cowardice,… … Moby Thesaurus
softness — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, adynamia, airiness, anemia, ascent, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, chicken liveredness, chickenheartedness, clemency, clementness, commodiousness … Moby Thesaurus
