0 having no excitement, interest, or new and different events:
1 lacking excitement and interest; ordinary:
But all these only briefly interrupted an otherwise humdrum existence.
The polite urbanites of the eighteenth century desired separation; they wanted the street cleared of noisy, humdrum performers.
In the fantastic scenes, such patterns comprise the exotic pages of the score, while the modal and octatonic passages comprise the familiar, humdrum ones.
We may fancy an exotic past that contrasts with a humdrum or unhappy present, but we forge it with modern tools.
Nor is it outrageous that intellectual historians and literary scholars have lavished more attention on them than on more humdrum contemporaries.
Many reduplications are of this sort - dilly-dally, harum-scarum, humdrum, mumbo-jumbo, namby-pamby.
From the perspective of outsiders, linguistic theory may indeed be a heady realm, and language teaching humdrum practice.
For the vocal-rhythmical humdrum of lines 3 and 4 is an effect that lines 1 and 2 have set off.
