humdrum

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsmonotonysameness

   Broaderunvariedness

Other forms of humdrum

plural

humdrums·

comparative

humdrummer·

superlative

humdrummest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about humdrum

What does humdrum mean?

humdrum means "not challenging; dull and lacking excitement". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in humdrum?

humdrum has 2 syllables: hum-drum. The stress falls on "hum". In IPA it is /ˈhʌmˌdɹʌm/.

What is another word for humdrum?

Close synonyms include commonplace, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous, monotonous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humdrum a common word?

humdrum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with humdrum?

1 word rhymes with humdrum. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.