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Synonyms for ho-hum
ˈhoʊˈhʌm, -ˌhʌmho-hum
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Princeton's WordNet
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
"a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Synonyms:
dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, tiresome, muffled, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softenedAntonyms:
interesting
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2901 | slow | |
#8356 | boring | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9564 | dumb | |
#9770 | dense | |
#13293 | dull | |
#16762 | windy | |
#20706 | tedious | |
#22081 | verbose | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#32570 | softened | |
#32598 | muted | |
#48971 | tiresome | |
#49055 | muffled | |
#56643 | obtuse | |
#70981 | wordy | |
#91829 | leaden | |
#107606 | deadening | |
#109623 | irksome | |
#129314 | wearisome | |
#207170 | thudding |
How to use ho-hum in a sentence?
Hum fits a need that exists for people to feel more connected.
' You know, they are starting to send these rockets up with people into space. Wouldn't it be something if Captain Kirk went up there,' jason Ehrlich, for God sakes, nobody cares about -- hum going up in - it was 55 years ago -- my God man -- um, hum, uh -- well maybe I should go up into space.
Jis cheez ko tum badal na sako us k saath compromise kar lia karo, lekin apni kisi khwahish ko kabhi zid mat banaya karo. Zindagi main kuch cheezen hamen kabhi nahi mil saktin chahain hum royen, chillayen ya bachon ki tarah aeriyan rigren. Q k wo kisi or k liye hoti hain!
Even after today's drop, I don't think people are totally ruling out Aetna Inc and Humana Inc -LRB- HUM.N -RRB-.
The only reason we're reaching the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic is because working people stepped up, we hear so many business leaders calling these workers essential and calling them heroes, but words are not enough. We have always been essential, doing the critical work to make this country hum.
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