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un exciting
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unexciting
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| 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: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insensitive |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, apathetic, blank, boring, callous, colorless, dead, depressed, empty, even, flat, heavy, impassible, inactive, indifferent, inert, insensible, jejune, languid, lifeless, listless, lumpy, monotonous, passionless, placid, prosaic, quiet, regular, routine, slack, slow, sluggish, spiritless, stagnant, still, stolid, torpid, unexciting, unresponsive, unsympathetic, usual, vacuous |
| Antonyms: | lively, quick, sensitive, vivacious |
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneventful |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, apathetic, blah, boring, dead, depressed, draggy, even, falling off, flat, inactive, inert, languid, lifeless, listless, monotonous, placid, quiet, regular, routine, sitting tight, slack, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, still, stolid, tight, torpid, unexciting, unresponsive, usual, without incident, yawn |
| Antonyms: | active, eventful, exciting, interesting, lively |
| Main Entry: | stodgy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, stuffy |
| Synonyms: | banausic, boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, exciting, ready, willing |
| Main Entry: | tame |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
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