Meaning of HO-HUM
Pronunciation: | | how hum
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| Definition: | | [adj] 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" |
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| Synonyms: | | boring, deadening, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, wearisome |
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| Related Terms: | | arid, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, characterless, cold, colorless, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, heavy, hollow, inane, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, unlively, vapid, wooden |
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