'Humdrum' definitions:
Definition of 'humdrum'
(from WordNet)
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
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