humdrum
Plural: humdrums
Noun
- A dull, boring, or monotonous person or routine.
- the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety
- "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"
- The quality of lacking variety or excitement.
- A stupid fellow.
Adjective Satellite
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
- "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"
Adj
- Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
Examples
- His Scrabble strategy was so humdrum, always playing short, common words without flair.
Origin / Etymology
Possible reduplication of hum, 1550s.
Synonyms
commonplace, monotonous, monotony, prosaic, sameness, unglamorous, unglamourous, banal, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dullness, flat, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, mundane, no fun at parties, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, prosy, snoozeworthy, soporific, static, stodgy, straightforward, tedious, uncool, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, wooden
Scrabble Score: 15
humdrum: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhumdrum: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
humdrum: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary