humdrum

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  1. adjective Lacking variety or excitement; dull. See Synonyms at boring, dull.
  2. noun Monotonous talk or routine.

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  • Immelman, who has not won since last April and has tumbled from world No. 15 to his current No. 34, is currently in the same kind of humdrum form as he was coming into the tournament last year.
  • Charles Pierce, though, might be missing something essential about sports fan in a piece of punchy snark about a kind of humdrum NCAA tournament. —  Out Of Left Field
  • "This legislative caveat sounds humdrum, but it goes to the heart of whether the stimulus package will be effective," said Kevin Kearns, the group's president, in a statement last week.
  • A Preston councillor has admitted he can't get motivated to sit through "humdrum" Town Hall meetings.
  • The book was set in the 1950s, but the BBC sitcom is set in 1997, with 13-year-old Simon coping with "humdrum" Reading life with peroxide matriarch mum Debbie, wannabe ghetto queen sister Ashlene and blind lodger Aunty Hayley. —  getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably from hum.

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  1. In form a compound of hum and drum, perhaps orig. drone, being thus in effect a redupl. of hum, i. e. ‘humming,’ droning, monotonous.
  2. from humdrum, adjective
 

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