humdrum

hum·drum  (hmdrm)

adj.

Lacking variety or excitement; dull. See Synonyms at boring, dull.

n.

Monotonous talk or routine.

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[Probably from hum.]

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humdrum

Adjective

ordinary, dull, and uninteresting [probably based on hum]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	humdrum - the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" monotony, sameness unvariedness - characterized by an absence of variation
Adj.	1.	humdrum - not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" unglamorous, unglamourous, commonplace, prosaic unexciting - not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life"
	2.	humdrum - tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" monotonous dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"

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humdrum

adjective dull, ordinary, boring, routine, commonplace, mundane, tedious, dreary, banal, tiresome, monotonous, uneventful, uninteresting, mind-numbing, ho-hum (informal) repetitious, wearisome, unvaried << OPPOSITE exciting

Translations

humdrum [ˈhʌmdrʌm] adj (= boring) → monótono, aburrido (= routine); rutinario

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humdrum [ˈhʌmdrʌm] adj → monotone, routinier/ière

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humdrum [ˈhʌmdrʌm] adj → eintönig, langweilig

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humdrum [ˈhʌmdrʌm] adj → monotono/a, tedioso/a