| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
Synonyms: |
arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
Antonyms: |
exciting, fascinating, interesting |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
Synonyms: |
accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, 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, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | even |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flat, uniform |
Synonyms: |
alike, balanced, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, direct, equal, flush, homogenous, horizontal, level, matching, metrical, parallel, planate, plane, plumb, proportional, regular, right, same, smooth, square, stabile, stable, steady, straight, surfaced, true, unbroken, unchanging, undeviating, unfluctuating, uninterrupted, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwrinkled |
Antonyms: |
broken, different, disparate, irregular, rough, uneven |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
Synonyms: |
arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden-variety, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, uninteresting, unvaried, vanilla, wearisome, white-bread |
Antonyms: |
busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
Synonyms: |
banausic, blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, droning, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, flat as pancake, ho-hum, humdrum*, monotone, nothing, pedestrian, plodding, prosaic, puts one to sleep, recurrent, reiterated, repetitious, repetitive, samely, sing-song, soporific, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninflected, uninteresting, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying |
Antonyms: |
changing, ever-changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile |
| Main Entry: | uneventful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | monotonous, dull |
Synonyms: |
boring, common, commonplace, humdrum, inconclusive, indecisive, ordinary, prosaic, quiet, routine, tedious, unexceptional, unexciting, unfateful, uninteresting, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unvaried |
Antonyms: |
eventful, exciting, extraordinary, memorable |
| Main Entry: | uniform |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike |
Synonyms: |
agnate, akin, analogous, comparable, consistent, consonant, correspondent, ditto*, double, equal, identical, like, mated, monotonous, parallel, same, same difference, selfsame, similar, treadmill, undifferentiated, unvaried |
Antonyms: |
deviating, different, dissimilar, divergent, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | unchanged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaltered |
Synonyms: |
consistent, constant, continuing, continuous, eternal, firm, fixed, permanent, perpetual, resolute, stable, unaffected, uninterrupted, unmodified, unmoved, untouched, unvaried, unvarying |
Antonyms: |
adjusted, altered, changed, modified, transformed |
| Main Entry: | invariant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | even |
Synonyms: |
alike, balanced, changeless, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, direct, equable, equal, flush, homogenous, horizontal, invariable, level, matching, metrical, parallel, planate, plane, plumb, proportional, regular, right, same, smooth*, square, stabile, stable, steady, straight, surfaced, true, unbroken, unchanging, undeviating, unfluctuating, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwrinkled |
| Main Entry: | planar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | even |
Synonyms: |
alike, balanced, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, direct, equal, flat*, flush, homogenous, horizontal, level, matching, metrical, parallel, planate, plane, plumb, proportional, regular, right, same, smooth*, square, stabile, stable, steady, straight, surfaced, true, unbroken, unchanging, undeviating, unfluctuating, uninterrupted, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwrinkled |