Synonyms for ho-hum
- banal
- bland
- innocuous
- trite
- vapid
- anemic
- arid
- beige
- blah
- characterless
- colorless
- commonplace
- dead
- drab
- driveling
- dry
- feeble
- flat
- inane
- jejune
- lifeless
- limp
- mild
- mundane
- nebbish
- nothing
- ordinary
- plain
- pointless
- prosaic
- prosy
- slight
- soft
- spiritless
- stale
- stupid
- subdued
- tame
- tedious
- tenuous
- thin
- tired
- unimaginative
- watery
- weak
- weariful
- wearisome
- wishy-washy
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Antonyms for ho-hum
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Brand name of one of those mild little red Baby Goudas that make you say "Ho-hum."
WORD ORIGIN
expression of boredom, by 1906. As an adjective, by 1956.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HO-HUM
insipid
adjectivedull, uninteresting- anemic
- arid
- banal
- beige
- blah
- bland
- characterless
- colorless
- commonplace
- dead
- drab
- driveling
- dry
- feeble
- flat
- ho-hum
- inane
- innocuous
- jejune
- lifeless
- limp
- mild
- mundane
- nebbish
- nothing
- ordinary
- plain
- pointless
- prosaic
- prosy
- slight
- soft
- spiritless
- stale
- stupid
- subdued
- tame
- tedious
- tenuous
- thin
- tired
- trite
- unimaginative
- vapid
- watery
- weak
- weariful
- wearisome
- wishy-washy
lackluster
adjectivedull, lifelessmild
adjectivegentle, temperate, nonirritating- balmy
- benign
- benignant
- blah
- bland
- breezy
- calm
- choice
- clear
- clement
- cool
- dainty
- delicate
- demulcent
- easy
- emollient
- exquisite
- faint
- fine
- flat
- genial
- ho-hum
- lenient
- lenitive
- light
- lukewarm
- medium
- mellow
- moderate
- mollifying
- nothing
- nothing much
- pabulum
- pacific
- peaceful
- placid
- smooth
- soft
- soothing
- sunny
- tempered
- tepid
- untroubled
- vanilla
- warm
- weak
- wimpy
monotonous
adjectiveall the same, remaining the same- 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
prosaic
adjectiveunimaginative- actual
- banal
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- drab
- dry
- dull
- everyday
- factual
- flat
- garden-variety
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- matter-of-fact
- monotonous
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- workaday
- yawn
- zero
tedious
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