Thesaurus / humdrum
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Even the humdrum corners of capitalism are spawning intergenerational windfalls.
THE GREAT INHERITORS: HOW THREE FAMILIES SHIELDED THEIR FORTUNES FROM TAXES FOR GENERATIONSBY PATRICIA CALLAHAN, JAMES BANDLER, JUSTIN ELLIOTT, DORIS BURKE AND JEFF ERNSTHAUSENDECEMBER 15, 2021PROPUBLICAVariants of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus have popped up in different corners of the world and while that might sound a bit scary it’s actually perfectly normal, or even “humdrum” as one Nature study puts it.
A GUIDE TO DELTA, DELTA-PLUS, LAMBDA, AND OTHER INFECTIOUS CORONAVIRUS VARIANTSEMPIREAUGUST 24, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEOn paper, the basic announcement may look humdrum to savvy modern-gaming fans.
HOW ONE GAME’S DELISTING POKES A HOLE IN THE XBOX GAME PASS PROMISESAM MACHKOVECHJULY 29, 2021ARS TECHNICANarrator Jasmin Richardson improves on humdrum product descriptions by ad libbing jokes and inserting wry observations throughout the almost four-hour audio track.
IKEA HAS REPLACED ITS PRINT CATALOG WITH AN AUDIOBOOKANNE QUITOMARCH 18, 2021QUARTZOne must employ one's self in some way, and we live such a humdrum life here that there is chance for very little variety.
INTERRUPTEDPANSYIn this humdrum place, that is so cool and quiet, and to me so congenial, there is but one interesting walk.
THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIAADA CAMBRIDGEThe winter became severe and stormy, confining us much to the house, and obliging us to lead very humdrum sort of lives.
HUDSON BAYR.M. BALLANTYNEThe sameness, the humdrum tediousness of the everyday life drives them to the city.
THE AMERICAN COUNTRY GIRLMARTHA FOOTE CROWByrons life at Pisa, as afterwards at Genoa, was what most people would call a humdrum, dull existence.
BYRONRICHARD EDGCUMBEThe remainder will be published in the New York Humdrum; the week after next number of which was issued week before last.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. I. FEBRUARY, 1862, NO. II.VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HUMDRUM
- 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
- 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
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