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| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread |
| Antonyms: | busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, common, conventional, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, nothing, old hat, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy*, zero*, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, cornfed, dull as dishwater, ho hum, noplace, nowhere, platitudinous |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blah |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | bland, boring, dim, dreary, humdrum, monotonous, pedestrian, banausic, monotone, plodding, yawn producing |
| Antonyms: | exciting, spirited, full of life |
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, familiar, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, mediocre, middle-of-the-road*, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, vanilla*, widespread, worn-out, boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, dime-a-dozen, familiar tune, garden variety, matter-of-course, unnoteworthy, workaday |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dragging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiresome, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | boring, dull, humdrum, lengthy, long, prolonged, tedious, wearisome, drawn-out, going slowly, overlong, protracted |
| Antonyms: | lively, energizing |
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | mediocre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | colorless, common, conventional, decent, dull, fair, fair to middling, humdrum*, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate, mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill*, second-rate, so-so*, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, uninspired, vanilla*, characterless, fairish, no great shakes, of poor quality |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary, inferior, superior, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, boring, common, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, unskilled, vile, baseborn, demeaning, grovelling, sycophantic |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
| Synonyms: | blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, dull, flat, humdrum*, nothing, pedestrian, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, soporific, tedious, tiresome, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninteresting, unvarying, wearisome, banausic, droning, dull as dishwater, flat as pancake, ho-hum, monotone, plodding, puts one to sleep, reiterated, samely, sing-song, toneless, treadmill, uninflected, unrelieved, unvaried, wearying |
| Antonyms: | changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile, ever-changing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuity, dryness, dullness, ennui, evenness, humdrum*, likeness, oneness, routine, similarity, tediousness, tedium, uniformity, colorlessness, dreariness, equability, flatness, identicalness, invariability, levelness, monotone, monotonousness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, same old thing, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, wearisomeness |
| Antonyms: | change, color, excitement, liveliness, versatility, variability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mundane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, earthly, everyday, humdrum*, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, worldly, day-to-day, workaday, workday |
| Antonyms: | exciting, extraordinary, heavenly, supernatural, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedestrian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | everyday, dull |
| Synonyms: | banal, blah*, boring, commonplace, dim, dreary, flat, humdrum*, inane, jejune, mediocre, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, wishy-washy*, banausic, monotone, platitudinous, plodding, truistic |
| Antonyms: | different, exceptional, extraordinary, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
| Synonyms: | actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, hackneyed, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, monotonous, mundane, nothing, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, vanilla*, vapid, yawn*, zero*, diddly, garden-variety, ho-hum, lusterless, matter-of- fact, nowhere, platitudinous, prosy, uninspiring, workaday |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | run-of-the-mill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average |
| Synonyms: | common, commonplace, customary, dime a dozen, everyday, fair, fair to middling, humdrum, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middle of the road*, middling, ordinary, regular, routine, so-so*, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual, garden-variety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tedious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arid, banal, boring, drab, dragging, dreary, dry, dusty*, endless, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless, mortal, pabulum*, poky*, prosaic, slow, snooze*, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, bromidic, draggy, drudging, dull as dishwater, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, long-drawn-out, prosy, weariful |
| Antonyms: | entertaining, exciting, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tiresome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating, exasperating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uneventful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | monotonous, dull |
| Synonyms: | boring, common, commonplace, humdrum, inconclusive, indecisive, ordinary, prosaic, quiet, routine, tedious, unexceptional, unexciting, uninteresting, unfateful, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unvaried |
| Antonyms: | eventful, exciting, extraordinary, memorable |
| Main Entry: | unexciting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull |
| Synonyms: | blah, boring, common, dead, dreary, familiar, humdrum*, long-winded, monotonous, ordinary, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill*, uneventful, unimaginative, uninteresting, usual, big yawn, ho hum, uninspiring, usual thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninspired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | commonplace, corny*, everyday, heavy-handed, humdrum, indifferent, old hat, ordinary, ponderous, prosaic, stale, sterile, stock, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, unmoved, yawn*, bromidic, phoned in, uncreative, unimpressed, uninspiring, uninventive |
| Antonyms: | creative, inspired, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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