The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
Синонимы
Examples for "commonplace "
Examples for "commonplace "
1 Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2 But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3 Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace .
4 But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace .
5 The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
1 I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
2 In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic .
3 In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
4 Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
5 But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
1 But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
2 Production values are thrifty but resourcefully deployed to accentuate the unglamorous environment.
3 For a generally unglamorous and rather functional product, primer elicits much conversation.
4 In other words, it shows the unglamorous side of the jet-lag life.
5 Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
1 The film star was dressed for bed in a very unglamourous , extra-large man's T-shirt.
2 At the stage door there were no crowds of groupies or fans - just forty unglamourous people waiting for backstage passes.
3 Some might say that Portadown were stuck in limbo last season, sucked into the unglamourous atmosphere of All-Ireland League Division Three.
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; all work and no play"
1 This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
2 England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
3 In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
4 Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum , honest labor.
5 She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
6 He had brought the splendour of an ideal into my humdrum life.
7 To earn her living in a humdrum way she had no need.
8 Perhaps it was because his own day-to-day existence was placid and humdrum .
9 I'm tired of being a humdrum fairy year in and year out.
10 She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
11 No, I am afraid that Viking is too humdrum to be notable.
12 Her assemblages of apparently humdrum objects are catnip to galleries and collectors.
13 Away from the eerie graveyard of the cliff, the island is humdrum .
14 After all, we are but humdrum people, as the world goes now.
15 Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
16 Rapper Eve further slums down the track with a superfluous, humdrum rap.
Другие примеры для термина "humdrum"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Humdrum в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки