Humdrum: alternatives and connections

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

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Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.

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A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.

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Alt. of Prosaical

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The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of s…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.