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Humdrum vs Bored - What's the difference?

humdrum | bored |

As adjectives the difference between humdrum and bored

is that humdrum is lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring while bored is suffering from boredom.

As a noun humdrum

is the quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.

As a verb bored is

(bore).

humdrum

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.
  • * 2010 ,
    • I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum , and heat of the here and now.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    bored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bore)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
    • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

    • Related terms

    * bore * boredom * boring

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