Usually means: Lacking variety; boringly monotonous routine.
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  1. humdrum: Merriam-Webster
  2. humdrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humdrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. humdrum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. humdrum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Humdrum, humdrum: Wordnik
  7. humdrum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. humdrum: Wiktionary
  9. humdrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. humdrum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. humdrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Humdrum, humdrum: Dictionary.com
  13. humdrum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. humdrum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Humdrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Humdrum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. humdrum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. humdrum: Rhymezone
  19. Humdrum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. humdrum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HUMDRUM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. humdrum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. humdrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Humdrum: The Word Detective
  25. humdrum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. humdrum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. humdrum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humdrum: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. humdrum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. humdrum: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
noun:  (uncountable) The quality of lacking variety or excitement.
noun:  (countable, dated) A stupid fellow.

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