humdrum job
monotonous, boring job
TRANSLATION
langweilig, alltäglich, eintönig,stumpfsinnig
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Teachers freed from HUMDRUM tasks - Teachers in England and Wales can no longer be asked routinely to do any administrative or clerical tasks. School support staff are now supposed to undertake the tasks removed from teachers' responsibilities."
(BBC News - 1st Dec. 2003)
(BBC News - 1st Dec. 2003)
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humdrum
Means lacking variety or excitement; dull.
Synonyms for describing uninteresting things: boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum
BORING implies feelings of listlessness and discontent: "I had never read such a boring book."
MONOTONOUS bores because of lack of variety: "There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea" (James Russell Lowell).
TEDIOUS suggests dull slowness or long-windedness: Traveling by plane avoids spending tedious days on the train.
IRKSOME describes what is demanding of time and effort and yet is dull and often unrewarding: “I know and feel what an irksome task the writing of long letters is" (Edmund Burke).
TIRESOME makes us tired because something seems to be unending, or is the same over and over again: "What a tiresome being is a man who is fond of talking" (Benjamin Jowett).
HUMDRUM refers to what is commonplace, trivial, or unexcitingly routine: "John led a humdrum existence."
(Adapted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Use HUMDRUM today!
Ask a British or American colleague the following:
"I dislike filling out travel reports. What is the most humdrum part of your work?"
Means lacking variety or excitement; dull.
Synonyms for describing uninteresting things: boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum
BORING implies feelings of listlessness and discontent: "I had never read such a boring book."
MONOTONOUS bores because of lack of variety: "There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea" (James Russell Lowell).
TEDIOUS suggests dull slowness or long-windedness: Traveling by plane avoids spending tedious days on the train.
IRKSOME describes what is demanding of time and effort and yet is dull and often unrewarding: “I know and feel what an irksome task the writing of long letters is" (Edmund Burke).
TIRESOME makes us tired because something seems to be unending, or is the same over and over again: "What a tiresome being is a man who is fond of talking" (Benjamin Jowett).
HUMDRUM refers to what is commonplace, trivial, or unexcitingly routine: "John led a humdrum existence."
(Adapted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Use HUMDRUM today!
Ask a British or American colleague the following:
"I dislike filling out travel reports. What is the most humdrum part of your work?"
