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Humdrum

Humdrum Meaning & Definition
Humdrum Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Humdrum?

[adj] tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
[adj] not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Humdrum: commonplace | dull | monotonous | prosaic | unexciting | unglamorous | unglamourous

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also |

Humdrum In Webster's Dictionary

\Hum"drum`\, a. Monotonous; dull; commonplace. ``A humdrum crone.'' --Bryant.
\Hum"drum`\, n. 1. A dull fellow; a bore. --B. Jonson. 2. Monotonous and tedious routine. Dissatisfied with humdrum. --The Nation. 3. A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.

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