'Humdrum' definitions:

Definition of 'humdrum'

adjective

Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]

adjective

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous]

noun

The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]

Definition of 'Humdrum'

From: GCIDE

Humdrum \Hum"drum`\, a. Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone." --Bryant. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Humdrum'

From: GCIDE

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. Humect

Synonyms of 'humdrum'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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