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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:	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

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Main Entry:	dismal
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	bleak, dreary, gloomy
Synonyms:	black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits
Antonyms:	bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant

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:	endless
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not stopping, not finishing
Synonyms:	boundless, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, countless, deathless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immeasurable, immortal, incalculable, incessant, indeterminate, infinite, interminable, limitless, monotonous, multitudinous, never-ending, numberless, perpetual, unbroken, undivided, undying, unending, unfathomable, uninterrupted, unlimited, untold, amaranthine, illimitable, measureless, no end of, no end to, overlong, self-perpetuating, unbounded, unsurpassable, without end
Antonyms:	bounded, ending, limited, passing, stopping, completing, finishing, terminable

Main Entry:	frequent
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	common, repeated
Synonyms:	commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, profuse, recurrent, redundant, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various, a good many, iterated, pleonastic, recurring, reiterated, reiterative
Antonyms:	inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unusual, unrepeated

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:	incessant
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	never-ending, persistent
Synonyms:	ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, endless, eternal, everlasting, interminable, monotonous, nonstop, perpetual, relentless, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unrelenting, day-and-night, interminate, round-the-clock, unremitting
Antonyms:	broken, ending, intermittent, interrupted, ceasing

Main Entry:	invariable
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not changing
Synonyms:	changeless, consistent, constant, fixed, immovable, immutable, inflexible, monotonous, perpetual, regular, rigid, same, set, static, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unfailing, uniform, unvarying, unwavering, inalterable, undiversified, unmodifiable, unrelieved
Antonyms:	changeable, changing, variable, varying

Main Entry:	mechanical
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	done by machine; machinelike
Synonyms:	automated, automatic, cold, cursory, emotionless, fixed, habitual, impersonal, instinctive, involuntary, lifeless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, perfunctory, routine, spiritless, standardized, stereotyped, unchanging, unconscious, unfeeling, unthinking, useful, laborsaving, machine-driven, programmed
Antonyms:	by hand, conscious, feeling, manual

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

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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

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Main Entry:	stodgy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dull, stuffy
Synonyms:	boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty, banausic, plodding
Antonyms:	adventurous, exciting, ready, willing

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

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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:	uninteresting
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	boring, uneventful
Synonyms:	arid, banal, common, commonplace, depressing, dismal, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusty, flat, humdrum, insipid, irksome, jejune, monotonous, nothing, pedestrian, prosaic, soporific, stale, stupid, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unexciting, wearisome, big yawn, bromidic, fatiguing, ho hum, nowhere, prosy, unenjoyable, unentertaining, uninspiring
Antonyms:	eventful, exciting, interesting

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	repetitive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	repetitious
Synonyms:	boring, ceaseless, constant, continual, dull, insistent, monotonous, repeated, uninteresting, verbose

Main Entry:	bland
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	tasteless; undistinctive
Synonyms:	banal, blah, boring, dull, flat, flavorless, humdrum, insipid, monotonous, nothing, pabulum, tame, tedious, unexciting, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, watery, weak, wishy-washy, zero, dull as dishwater, ho hum, milk-and-water, nerdy, sapless, uninspiring, unstimulating, waterish, wimpy
Antonyms:	delicious, distinctive, sharp, tasty, yummy

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	common
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	average, ordinary
Synonyms:	accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill*, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, usual, wearisome, worn-out, comformable, unvaried, workaday
Notes:	mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead
Antonyms:	abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable