[へいぼんちんぷ, heibonchinpu] (n, adj-na) commonplace and stale; humdrum and hackneyed [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Humdrum \Hum"drum`\, a.
Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone." --Bryant.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Humdrum \Hum"drum`\, n.
1. A dull fellow; a bore. --B. Jonson.
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2. Monotonous and tedious routine.
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Dissatisfied with humdrum. --The Nation.
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3. A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse. Humect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
humdrum
adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: {commonplace},
{humdrum}, {prosaic}, {unglamorous}, {unglamourous}]
2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum
existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous
as the sea" [syn: {humdrum}, {monotonous}]
n 1: 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" [syn: {monotony}, {humdrum}, {sameness}]
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