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Humdrum   /hˈəmdrˌəm/   Listen
adjective
Humdrum  adj.  Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone."


noun
Humdrum  n.  
1.
A dull fellow; a bore.
2.
Monotonous and tedious routine. "Dissatisfied with humdrum."
3.
A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.





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"Humdrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them. His depression was due to that feeling which takes possession of one before any change of place, a feeling experienced by all melancholy, dreaming people and unknown to those of energetic, sanguine temperaments, who always rejoice at any break in the humdrum of their daily existence, and welcome a change of abode with pleasure. Nejdanov was so lost in his meditations that his thoughts began quite unconsciously to take the form of words. His wandering sensations began to ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... knew the sharp discipline of waiting. He knew what it meant to be going a commonplace, humdrum, tread-mill round while the fires are burning within for something else. He knew, and forever cast a sweet soft halo over all such labor as men call drudgery, which never was such to Him because of the fine spirit breathed ...
— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon
... of people being middle-aged, and steady, John, and pretend that we are a humdrum couple, going on in a jog-trot sort of way, it's only because I'm such a silly little thing, John, that I like, sometimes, to act a kind of Play with Baby, and all that: and ...
— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens
... of the untutored usually are, but uncomplexly. As she fondly contemplated her husband the next morning, she did not realize that in one swift day she had accomplished the main drama of her existence and henceforth must be content with the humdrum course of life. Archie was scarcely more concerned with ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick
... happy when it was effected; but I had, somehow, miscalculated. I missed the bewitching faces of the girls I had fled from, and, for the first time in my life, I realized that the world would be a terrible humdrum sort of a place if there ...
— The Fatal Glove • Clara Augusta Jones Trask


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