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Humdrum meaning

Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.

Synonyms of Humdrum

Using Humdrum

  • The main meaning on this page is: Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
  • Useful related words include: commonplace, sameness, monotony, dull.
  • In the example corpus, humdrum often appears in combinations such as: the humdrum, humdrum of, humdrum and.

Context around Humdrum

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Humdrum

  • In this selection, "humdrum" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, routine, become, perfectly, hairstyle, tasks and everyday stand out and add context to how "humdrum" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a rather humdrum possibly lacklustre and a very humdrum existence. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "humdrum" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with humdrum

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Was evil really so humdrum? (5 words)

A breather from the humdrum of city life is always a welcome break! (13 words)

But state Republican chairman Kyle Hupfer’s humdrum assessment of Hill isn’t. (13 words)

Some say the India she has written about has disappeared, but there are still traces, and something about the quiet way she peels away the humdrum to show the wild flurry that lives inside deserves to be part of the enduring story of the country. (45 words)

Liu also noted little changes in the humdrum of daily life, like how convenient public transportation can be in the capital, citing options to pay for bus tickets using smartphone applications instead of tokens or cards, as they use in Hong Kong. (42 words)

Koryta, who writes crime books as well, under his own name, says he feels the scariest stories are the ones set in a world where the details ground us and almost lull us into a fall sense of humdrum everyday life. (41 words)

Was evil really so humdrum? (5 words)

A breather from the humdrum of city life is always a welcome break! (13 words)

Example sentences (20)

But to pull off that look, Redmayne needed to ditch the humdrum hairstyle and lose at least 15 lbs.

It’s meant to divert you from the humdrum of everyday activities, whether you’re working from nine to five or just living a retired life.

On the one hand, proponents for artificial intelligence argue Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and others will improve productivity and creativity by taking on such humdrum tasks.

It’s been a year, and his life has become routine, humdrum, and lonely.

It’s this land between humdrum and oversharing, hot air and trauma dumping, where conversation gold often lies but can be tricky to reach.

Koryta, who writes crime books as well, under his own name, says he feels the scariest stories are the ones set in a world where the details ground us and almost lull us into a fall sense of humdrum everyday life.

No product is too boring or humdrum, it seems, to escape an AI makeover.

But it’s been done many times before and watching its journey to an utterly predictable conclusion doesn’t take long to become humdrum.

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For Sushant — who barely gets six hours of sleep a night — these videos are a leisure pursuit; TikTok, he thinks, could offer a path that frees him from his humdrum life.

In the town of Kenmare, the place where I grew up, the Catholic church provided an abundance of rituals and pageantry at a time – back in the 1950s and 1960s – when most people had to settle for a very humdrum existence.

Liu also noted little changes in the humdrum of daily life, like how convenient public transportation can be in the capital, citing options to pay for bus tickets using smartphone applications instead of tokens or cards, as they use in Hong Kong.

Today, in the middle of a rather humdrum, possibly lacklustre day of news, this author was amazed to find a new product announcement by Wizards of the Coast for their basically-immortal trading card game Magic: The Gathering.

A breather from the humdrum of city life is always a welcome break!

Gifts emphasized competitive individualism at a time when scientific collaboration and the often humdrum work of empirical observation was paramount.

Some say the India she has written about has disappeared, but there are still traces, and something about the quiet way she peels away the humdrum to show the wild flurry that lives inside deserves to be part of the enduring story of the country.

Was evil really so humdrum?

Yet if they have a USP, it is nothing less than being perfectly humdrum.

But state Republican chairman Kyle Hupfer’s humdrum assessment of Hill isn’t.

Call the first two periods humdrum and humdrummer, because for the first 40 minutes the Oilers and Islanders accomplished almost nothing.

There was something about Dietle’s that pulled you out of your humdrum workaday grind and into its vortex, like a former bartender who became homeless and lived in a tent out back for a while.

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Common combinations with humdrum

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "humdrum" in a sentence?
An example: "But to pull off that look, Redmayne needed to ditch the humdrum hairstyle and lose at least 15 lbs." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "humdrum" from authentic English texts.
What does "humdrum" mean?
Humdrum means: Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
What are synonyms of "humdrum"?
Common synonyms of "humdrum" include: commonplace, sameness, monotony, dull, monotonous, unexciting, unglamourous, unglamorous. Plus 2 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "humdrum" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "humdrum", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.