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  • 61dull — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsharp, blunt; deadened, numb; stupid; tedious, uninteresting, boring; spiritless, vapid, vacuous; dead, lifeless; sluggish, listless, lethargic; lackluster, dim, cloudy, obscure, stale, jaded. v.… …

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  • 62tedious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wearisome, wearing, dry, dry as dust, boring, tiresome, irksome, dull, monotonous, prosy, uninteresting. See weariness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. slow, wearisome, tiresome; see dull 4 . III (Roget …

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  • 63tiresome — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tedious, wearying, boring. See weariness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irksome, wearying, monotonous; see dull 4 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. wearisome, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing, arduous …

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  • 64uneventful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. monotonous, humdrum, dull. See inactivity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. routine, monotonous, unexciting, quiet; see dull 4 , 6 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. quiet, peaceful, dull, monotonous,… …

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  • 65uninteresting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dull, dreary, tedious, humdrum. See weariness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tedious, boring, tiresome, dreary, wearisome, prosaic, pedestrian, fatiguing, monotonous, dull, drab, colorless, stale,… …

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  • 66boring — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tedious, tiresome, monotonous; see dull 3 , 4 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. tedious, tiresome, *dull as dishwater, *dull as paint drying, soporific, somnolent, wearisome, dull, monotonous, humdrum, unstimulating,… …

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  • 67singsong — /ˈsɪŋsɒŋ / (say singsong) noun 1. verse, or a piece of verse, of a jingling or monotonous character. 2. monotonous rhythmical cadence, tone, or sound. 3. an informal gathering at which the company sing; community singing. –adjective 4.… …

  • 68dull — [adj1] unintelligent addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim witted, doltish, dumb, feeble minded, half baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse,… …

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  • 69mon|o|tone — «MON uh tohn», noun, adjective, verb, toned, ton|ing. –n. 1. sameness of tone, of style of writing, or of color: »the annoying blaring monotone of a stuck car horn. Figurative. Its [science s] history is a monotone of endurance and destruction… …

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  • 70Singsong — Sing song , a. Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence. [1913 Webster +PJC] …

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