| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, bromidic, clichéd, common, conventional, cornball, cornfed, corny, dull as dishwater, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, hokey, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, noplace, nothing, nowhere, old hat, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy, zero* |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
| Main Entry: | drab |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, colorless |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah*, bleak, boring, brown, characterless, cheerless, desolate, dingy, dismal, dreary, dry, dull as dishwater, faded, flat, gloomy, gray, grungy, lackluster, lusterless, muddy, murky, run-down, same, shabby, somber, subfuse, unchanging, uninspired, vapid, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, inspired |
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah, boring, bromidic, draggy, dreary, dull as dishwater, dusty, ho hum, impassive, inelaborate, insipid, matter-of-fact, modest, monotonous, naked, phlegmatic, plain, simple, tedious, tiresome, trite, weariful, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | exciting, interesting, juicy, lively, untiring |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
| Synonyms: | banausic, blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, droning, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, flat as pancake, ho-hum, humdrum*, monotone, nothing, pedestrian, plodding, prosaic, puts one to sleep, recurrent, reiterated, repetitious, repetitive, samely, sing-song, soporific, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninflected, uninteresting, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying |
| Antonyms: | changing, ever-changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile |
| Main Entry: | tedious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, drab, dragging, draggy, dreary, drudging, dry, dull as dishwater, dusty, endless, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless, long-drawn-out, mortal, pabulum, poky, prosaic, prosy, slow, snooze, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | entertaining, exciting, interesting |
| Main Entry: | unimaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, predictable |
| Synonyms: | banal, barren, bromidic, common, commonplace, derivative, dime a dozen, dry, dull as dishwater, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, lifeless, matter-of-fact, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, square*, tame, tedious, trite, uncreative, uninspired, unoriginal, unromantic, usual, vanilla, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, original |