All ho-hum synonyms

adj ho-hum

• unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
• innocuous — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
• vapid — lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
• trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
• bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
• banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
• uninspired — not inspired; not creative or spirited: an uninspired performance; an uninspired teacher.
• boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
• muted — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
• tepid — moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid water.
• delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
• peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
• sunny — abounding in sunshine: a sunny day.
• balmy — Balmy weather is fairly warm and pleasant.
• breezy — If you describe someone as breezy, you mean that they behave in a casual, cheerful, and confident manner.
• benign — You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
• warm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• mellow — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
• repetitive — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
• dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
• humdrum — lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
• tiresome — causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
• workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
• annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
• tiring — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
• onerous — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
• anemic — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
• arid — Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
• beige — Something that is beige is pale brown in colour.
• blah — You use blah, blah, blah to refer to something that is said or written without giving the actual words, because you think that they are boring or unimportant.
• colorless — Something that is colorless has no color at all.
• commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
• dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
• drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
• dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• feeble — physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
• flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
• inane — lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
• jejune — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
• lifeless — not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
• limp — to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
• mild — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.