| Main Entry: | tedium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness, monotony |
Synonyms: |
banality, boredom, deadness, doldrums, drabness, dreariness, ennui, irksomeness, lack of interest, lifelessness, routine, sameness, tediousness, tiresomeness, wearisomeness, yawn |
Antonyms: |
diversion, entertainment, excitement |
| Main Entry: | boredom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinterest; weariness |
Synonyms: |
apathy, detachment, disgust, distaste, doldrums, dullness, ennui, fatigue, flatness, incuriosity, indifference, irksomeness, jadedness, lack of interest, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, monotony, pococurantism, sameness, taedium vitae, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unconcern, world-weariness, yawn |
Antonyms: |
excitement, interest, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | doldrums |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
Synonyms: |
apathy, black mood, blahs, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, disinterest, dismals, downer, dullness, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, inactivity, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, mopes, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn |
Antonyms: |
elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
Synonyms: |
apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, satiety, spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn |
Antonyms: |
energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sadness |
Synonyms: |
blahs, blue devils, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dismals, dolefuls, dolor, down trip, downer, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, gloominess, grief, letdown, low spirits, miserableness, misery, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
Synonyms: |
colorlessness, continuance, continuity, dreariness, dryness, dullness, ennui, equability, evenness, flatness, humdrum*, identicalness, invariability, levelness, likeness, monotone, monotonousness, oneness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, routine, same old thing, similarity, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, uniformity, wearisomeness |
Antonyms: |
change, color, excitement, liveliness, variability, versatility |
| Main Entry: | sameness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, similarity |
Synonyms: |
adequation, alikeness, analogy, equality, equivalency, identicalness, identity, indistinguishability, monotony, no difference, oneness, par, parity, predictability, repetition, resemblance, selfsameness, standardization, tedium, uniformity, unison, unity, unvariedness |
Antonyms: |
difference, dissimilarity, variableness, variety |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
Synonyms: |
aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
Antonyms: |
action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | meagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
boredom, flatness, monotony, sameness, tedium |
| Main Entry: | weariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhaustion |
Synonyms: |
boredom, ennui, fatigue, languishment, languor, lassitude, lethargy, monotony, tedium |