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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "monotone"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "ennuyeux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "embétant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "soporifique"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "langweilig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "monoton"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "eintönig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "dröge"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "gleichförmig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "trist"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "abgestumpft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "einförmig"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shigratí",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "שגרתי"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "meshaamém",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "משעמם"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "unalmas"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "egyhangú"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "sivár"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "mākihakiha"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "anugivol"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "anugiu"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "anujós"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monotonny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prozaiczny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skúčnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "ску́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skúčnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "ску́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "banálʹnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "бана́льный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "búdničnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "бу́дничный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "odnoobráznyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "однообра́зный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prozaíčnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "прозаи́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monotónnyj",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "моното́нный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "aburrido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "tedioso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring",
"word": "soso"
}
],
"word": "humdrum"
}
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"plural"
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{
"ref": "2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest",
"text": "I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum, and heat of the here and now.",
"type": "quotation"
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"The quality of lacking variety or excitement."
],
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"(uncountable) The quality of lacking variety or excitement."
],
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{
"word": "dullness"
},
{
"word": "monotony"
}
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"uncountable"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1834, Elizabeth Frances Dagley, The Young Seer, Or Early Searches Into Futurity, page 103",
"text": "So, after settling it that Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were complete country humdrums, the daughters hoydens, the sons awkward half-dandies, and the company altogether any thing but agreeable, she came to a conclusion she had done fifty times before, that the country was not like London.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A stupid fellow."
],
"links": [
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
],
[
"fellow",
"fellow"
]
],
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"(countable, dated) A stupid fellow."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"dated"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhʌmdɹʌm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-humdrum.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/En-us-humdrum.ogg/En-us-humdrum.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-us-humdrum.ogg",
"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (US)"
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],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skučnost",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скучност"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "monotonnost",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "монотонност"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "traintrain"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"word": "Monotonie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"word": "Einerlei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"word": "Tristesse"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"word": "monotonia"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anujament"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anujança"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "povsednévnostʹ",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "повседне́вность"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "odnoobrázije",
"sense": "The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "однообра́зие"
}
],
"word": "humdrum"
}
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