Humdrum \Hum"drum`\, a.
Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone." --Bryant.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Humdrum \Hum"drum`\, n.
1. A dull fellow; a bore. --B. Jonson.
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2. Monotonous and tedious routine.
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Dissatisfied with humdrum. --The Nation.
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3. A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse. Humect
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
humdrum
adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace,
prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum
existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so
monotonous as the sea" [syn: monotonous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
122 Moby Thesaurus words for "humdrum":
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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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