All milk-and-water synonyms
milk-and-waΒ·ter
M m adj milk-and-water
- tedious β event: dull
- watery β pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
- insipid β without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- boring β Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
- wishy-washy β lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
- tame β changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- banal β 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.
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- innocuous β not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- stale β not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- thin β having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- blah β 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.
- flat β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- flavorless β taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- humdrum β lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
- monotonous β lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
- nothing β no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- pabulum β something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- unexciting β producing excitement; stirring; thrilling: an exciting account of his trip to Tibet.
- uninteresting β engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- vanilla β any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vapid β lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
- weak β not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- zero β the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- waterish β somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- dull as dishwater β water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- nerdy β Slang. of or like a nerd.
- sapless β without sap; withered; dry: sapless plants.
- uninspiring β to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- unstimulating β to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- wimpy β of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
- bland β If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- colorless β Something that is colorless has no color at all.
- dead β A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- inane β lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
- jejune β without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
- least β small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- lifeless β not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
- limp β to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
- tasteless β having no taste or flavor; insipid.
- tiresome β causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job.
- unimaginative β characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- unpalatable β not palatable; unpleasant to the taste.
- vacant β having no contents; empty; void: a vacant niche.
- vacuous β without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
- milquetoast β a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- driveling β saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- flat tire β a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
- nowhere β in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- dilute β to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.