humdrum
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈhʌm.drʌm/
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monótono
- He decided to leave his humdrum job in search of a more exciting career.
- humdrum life
- humdrum existence
- humdrum job
They allow us to kind of rise above our kind of humdrum human experience.
- They allow us to kind of rise above our kind of humdrum human experience.
- My honest answer is I don't know and it's the most humdrum answer.
Examples
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Harvest the details of her humdrum life.
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Don't settle for a humdrum existence.
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Or not - not doing the humdrum part of the job.
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It's the Old Country in them, the humdrum office jobs where you show up and then chat the day away.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's rather humdrum work, I'm afraid.
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Your life in New York, it sounds terribly humdrum.
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Most people are stuck in humdrum tasks that don't seem to mean very much.
Blog text (19) -
The moment of drama was over, at least temporarily, and the humdrum beat of bureaucracy was restored.
Fiction book (1996) -
If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.
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The novel begins with the protagonist Harry Haller alone and adrift, having rejected his "besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness."
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
297
4.4
Not lively and often weak in taste or sound
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
54
3.4
Ordinary and not special or new
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
30
6.1
Dull and showing little energy
23
4.2
Not bright or colorful and not lively
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
20
3.7
Not exciting or interesting
16
7.9
Not interesting or lively and often boring
14
6.5
So boring that you stop paying attention
14
4.0
Not having new or interesting ideas
14
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
5
8.1
Not interesting and making you feel bored
4
5.4
Not attractive or exciting and often plain
3
3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
7.4
Not interesting or lively and often boring
1
9.3
Feeling bored, tired, and not interested
Does not interest, excite, or make people feel energetic
Boring and not interesting to think about or feel
Causes people to lose interest because it is dull
Very boring and hard to pay attention to
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Antonyms
How Exciting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humdrum probably comes from putting together the common sounds hum and drum. Think of a steady 'hum' or 'drum' you hear over and over; that repeated sound feels 'dull' and without excitement, so humdrum describes something boring and without variety.