MONOTONOUS, MONOTONY
ADJECTIVES
► HUMDRUM lacking variety; of a routine character; commonplace; monotonous, dull → 1553
► HUMDRUMMING monotonous, commonplace → 1698
► HUMDRUMMISH monotonous, dull → 1731
► SADING tiring, monotonous → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAMELY similar, without variety, unvaried, monotonous → 1799
► SAMEY monotonous; no different → 1929 UK sl.
► VEGETABLE uneventful, featureless, monotonous, dull → 1854
NOUNS
► HUMDRUM dullness, monotony, commonplaceness; dull monotonous talk → 1727
NOUNS – PERSON
► HUMDRUM a dull, monotonous, commonplace fellow → 1601
► JOE JOB a menial or monotonous task; an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects → 1948 colloq., chiefly Can.
► MONOTONIST a person who speaks monotonously, or who is monotonous in some way; a person who desires or advocates monotony or uniformity; one who persists in talking or writing on one theme or in one strain → 1748 chiefly derogatory
► VEGETABLE a dull, boring person who leads an inactive, undemanding, and monotonous life → 1988 sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► HUMDRUM to proceed in a monotonous or undecided fashion → 1733
► MONOTONIZE to make monotonous → 1803
► RAME to drone on in a monotonous fashion, to prate → 1839 Sc.
► TASTE OF THE KEG to be stale, to seem monotonous → 1923 Amer. dial.
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