Humdrum

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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