ho-hum
5
8.1
- adjective
- /hoʊ hʌm/
:
aburrido
- The presentation was so ho-hum that half the audience fell asleep.
- just another ho-hum
- pretty ho-hum
- ho-hum attitude
That's just the same old ho hum day-to-day of modern war.
- That's just the same old ho hum day-to-day of modern war.
- And it was just this glib ho hum attitude from the government's locking us down, you know, because people over profits, right?
Examples
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USA's decision to cancel Fairly Legal comes after the network tried revamping the series after its ho-hum first season.
Blog text (18) -
After initial passion, our days had settled to a ho-hum workday routine that had all the enchantment of a trip across an arid sandy plain, with no water hole in sight.
Fiction book (1998) -
The rest were all ho-hum about it.
Blog text (18) -
Getting a ho-hum third place finish was CBS Films' The Words.
Blog text (32) -
Some were pretty good, one was excellent, most of the rest were ho-hum, and one or two were positively illegal.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Many teachers who are ho-hum right now could begin to excel if they had better training.
Blog text (12) -
The achievement of space travel by humans is treated as ho-hum, not as an amazing feat of engineering, courage, and national will.
Academic text (2007) -
A trip to the country is just the perfect getaway from the ho-hum mall scene.
Blog text (24) -
Most other Timex watches are pretty ho-hum, even though they are functional.
Blog text (25) -
Despite the beautiful setting, the film turned out to be quite ho-hum and predictable.
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
37
4.1
Making you bored, annoyed, or mentally tired
31
2.8
A thing that has no strong character and few interesting features
23
4.2
Not bright or colorful and not lively
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
19
3.6
Without energy or interest and making people feel bored
14
6.5
So boring that you stop paying attention
14
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
3
3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
7.0
Makes you feel tired or bored because it is repetitive
1
6.9
Making something feel very dull and boring
1
9.9
Full of old or obvious ideas that seem important
Causes people to lose interest because it is dull
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Boring and not interesting to think about or feel
Very boring and hard to pay attention to
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ho-hum comes from two short exclamations, ho and hum, that people once used as a mild sound of feeling or boredom, and saying them together makes a slow, bored noise. So ho-hum now means 'so dull or uninteresting' and is used when something makes you feel bored.