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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | bland, bloodless, boiled down, boring, conventional, diluted, feeble, flat*, halfhearted, humdrum*, insipid, lifeless, limp, mild, monotonous, prosaic, routine, spiritless, tedious, unexciting, uninspiring, vapid, weak, wearisome, white-bread, without punch |
| Antonyms: | bright, exciting, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthbound, earthlike, earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, temporal, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual, worldly |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | trite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, cliché, clichéd, common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune, flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid, warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent, relevant, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | undistinguished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, characterless, common, commonplace, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, generic, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, unexciting, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual |
| Main Entry: | uneventful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | monotonous, dull |
| Synonyms: | boring, common, commonplace, humdrum, inconclusive, indecisive, ordinary, prosaic, quiet, routine, tedious, unexceptional, unexciting, unfateful, uninteresting, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unvaried |
| Antonyms: | eventful, exciting, extraordinary, memorable |
| Main Entry: | unexceptional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, insignificant, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, undistinguished, uneventful, unexciting, unimpressive, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual |
| Notes: | unexceptional is ordinary and not outstanding; unexceptionable means not open to objections |
| Main Entry: | unexciting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull |
| Synonyms: | big yawn, blah, boring, common, dead, dreary, familiar, ho hum, humdrum*, long-winded, monotonous, ordinary, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, uneventful, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninteresting, usual, usual thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninspired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | bromidic, commonplace, corny*, everyday, heavy-handed, humdrum, indifferent, old hat, ordinary, phoned in, ponderous, prosaic, stale, sterile, stock, uncreative, unexciting, unimaginative, unimpressed, uninspiring, uninteresting, uninventive, unmoved, yawn |
| Antonyms: | creative, inspired, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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