Synonyms of the word humdrum


HUMDRUMCOMMONPLACE - DULL - MONOTONOUS - MONOTONY - PROSAIC - SAMENESS - UNEXCITING - UNGLAMOROUS - UNGLAMOUROUS

humdrum

  • adj. Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
  • n. The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness; monotony.

commonplace

  • adj. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
  • n. A platitude or cliché.
  • n. Something that is ordinary.
  • n. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
  • n. A commonplace book.
  • v. To make a commonplace book.
  • v. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
  • v. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

dull

  • adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  • adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
  • adj. Sluggish, listless.
  • adj. Cloudy, overcast.
  • adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
  • adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  • adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  • adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
  • v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  • v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  • v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

monotonous

  • adj. Having an unvarying tone or pitch.
  • adj. Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

monotony

  • n. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
  • n. (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
  • n. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

prosaic

  • adj. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
  • adj. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
  • adj. (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace,…

sameness

  • n. the quality of being the same; identity.
  • n. the state of being equivalent; equality.
  • n. a tiring lack of variety; monotony.

unexciting

  • adj. Not exciting.

unglamorous

  • adj. Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.

unglamourous

  • adj. Misspelling of unglamorous.

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