Humdrum
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

DRAB
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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TRITE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

BANAL
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

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BORING
The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

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TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

PROSAIC
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

MUNDANE
Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

ROUTINE
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure

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TIRESOME
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

MONOTONY
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

SAMENESS
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

ORDINARY
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

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MONOTONOUS
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

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COMMONPLACE
A trite or obvious remark

UNGLAMOROUS
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

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UNGLAMOUROUS
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"