HUMDRUM


Meaning of HUMDRUM in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

life

It makes us feel better about our own humdrum lives that too much fun is so clearly bad for the health.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a humdrum job

Going to night school might improve your chances of getting out of that humdrum job.

Occasional holidays abroad were the only things that brightened up her otherwise humdrum life.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

How I wish all this was over and I could get back to my humdrum routine.

It could come in the wastes of the night, or at the most humdrum moments of the day.

Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane.

Such excitement was absent during a first half that was more humdrum than humdinger.

Their lives were, and are, humdrum .

They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.

You should still spot-check for humdrum words and phrases.

Zeinab, whatever else she might be, was definitely not humdrum .

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