Related Words:
- lackluster
collapse - lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
- lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" related words >
- absence of color,
- achromatic,
- achromaticity,
- achromatism,
- achromic,
- anemic,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- betwixt and between,
- bled white,
- blind,
- bloodless,
- cadaverous,
- chloranemic,
- colorless,
- colorlessness,
- dead,
- deadened,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- drab,
- dull,
- dullness,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- faded,
- faint,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fairishness,
- fallow,
- flat,
- ghastly,
- gray,
- haggard,
- hueless,
- huelessness,
- hypochromic,
- indifference,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- livid,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- mediocre,
- mediocreness,
- mediocrity,
- medium,
- middling,
- middlingness,
- moderate,
- moderateness,
- modest,
- modestness,
- modesty,
- muddy,
- muted,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- passable,
- passableness,
- pasty,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- respectability,
- respectable,
- rusty,
- sallow,
- sickly,
- so-so,
- somber,
- tallow-faced,
- tarnished,
- tedious,
- tediousness,
- tolerable,
- tolerableness,
- toneless,
- tonelessness,
- uncolored,
- vapid,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wishy-washy
- absolute,
- arrant,
- articulated,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- boring,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- characterless,
- classical,
- clear,
- complete,
- concatenated,
- connected,
- constant,
- consummate,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- crass,
- cyclical,
- decided,
- definitive,
- devoid,
- direct,
- downright,
- drab,
- egregious,
- empty,
- endless,
- featureless,
- flagrant,
- gapless,
- glaring,
- gray,
- gross,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- immediate,
- inane,
- incessant,
- insipid,
- interminable,
- intolerable,
- joined,
- jointless,
- linked,
- monotonous,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- null,
- null and void,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perennial,
- perfect,
- periodic,
- positive,
- precious,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- rank,
- recurrent,
- regular,
- repetitive,
- round-the-clock,
- running,
- same,
- samely,
- seamless,
- serried,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- smooth,
- stable,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- steady,
- straight,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- tedious,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unbearable,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undifferentiated,
- unending,
- unequivocal,
- uniform,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unremitting,
- unspoiled,
- unstopped,
- utter,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- void,
- white,
- with nothing inside,
- without content
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- articulated,
- assonant,
- banal,
- banausic,
- belabored,
- blah,
- boring,
- broken-record,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- chanting,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- colorless,
- commonplace,
- concatenated,
- connected,
- constant,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- cyclical,
- dim,
- dingdong,
- direct,
- drab,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- endless,
- everlasting,
- everyday,
- featureless,
- gapless,
- gray,
- harping,
- ho-hum,
- humdrum,
- immediate,
- incessant,
- interminable,
- invariable,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- jogtrot,
- joined,
- jointless,
- labored,
- linked,
- long-winded,
- mechanical,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- perennial,
- periodic,
- poky,
- prolix,
- prosaic,
- recurrent,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- round-the-clock,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- running,
- same,
- samely,
- seamless,
- serried,
- singsong,
- sleep-inducing,
- smooth,
- soporific,
- stable,
- steady,
- stodgy,
- straight,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- treadmill,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- undifferentiated,
- unending,
- uneventful,
- unexciting,
- uniform,
- uninteresting,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unstopped,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- wearisome,
- wearying
- elephantine
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- of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" related words >
- Atlantean,
- Brobdingnagian,
- Cyclopean,
- Gargantuan,
- Herculean,
- Homeric,
- Latinate,
- abysmal,
- arid,
- astronomic,
- awkward,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- bulky,
- characterless,
- clumsy,
- cold,
- colorless,
- colossal,
- cramped,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantlike,
- empty,
- enormous,
- epic,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- graceless,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- heroic,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- huge,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- immense,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- infinite,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- jumbo,
- labored,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- sesquipedalian,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stupendous,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- titanic,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- uninspired,
- unlively,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- vast,
- wooden
- accord,
- accordance,
- accordant,
- according,
- alliteral,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- assonant,
- assonantal,
- attune,
- attuned,
- attunement,
- belabored,
- blended,
- blending,
- change ringing,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chink,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- cliche-ridden,
- clink,
- concentus,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concordant,
- consonance,
- consonancy,
- consonant,
- consort,
- diapason,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- donging,
- euphony,
- harmonic,
- harmonics,
- harmonious,
- harmonizing,
- harmony,
- harping,
- heavy harmony,
- homophonic,
- homophony,
- humdrum,
- in accord,
- in chorus,
- in concert,
- in concord,
- in sync,
- in tune,
- in unison,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jingling,
- jog-trot,
- knell,
- knelling,
- labored,
- monochord,
- monodic,
- monody,
- monophonic,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- musical,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- punning,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- ring,
- ringing,
- singsong,
- sounding,
- symphonic,
- symphonious,
- symphony,
- synchronism,
- synchronization,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- tedious,
- three-part harmony,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabular,
- tintinnabulary,
- tintinnabulous,
- toll,
- tolling,
- tune,
- tuned,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- unisonant,
- unisonous
- Jonathan Oldbuck,
- Miniver Cheevy,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- academic,
- antiquarian,
- antiquary,
- antique collector,
- antique dealer,
- antique-car collector,
- archaeologist,
- archaist,
- arid,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bookish,
- bore,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- buttonholer,
- characterless,
- classicist,
- cold,
- colorless,
- crashing bore,
- dead,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- dismal,
- donnish,
- drag,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- dry,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- fade,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- harping,
- headache,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jog-trot,
- laudator temporis acti,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mandarin,
- medievalist,
- monotonous,
- nuisance,
- owlish,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- professorial,
- prolix,
- proser,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- singsong,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- treadmill,
- twaddler,
- uneventful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- wet blanket,
- wooden
- discontent
collapse
- make dissatisfied related words >
- aggravation,
- anger,
- angst,
- anguish,
- annoyance,
- anxiety,
- asperity,
- bad humor,
- bad temper,
- ban,
- be tedious,
- bile,
- biliousness,
- blackball,
- blackballing,
- bore,
- boredom,
- causticity,
- cheerlessness,
- choler,
- complaint,
- corrosiveness,
- dim view,
- disagreement,
- disappoint,
- disappointment,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- discomfort,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disenchantment,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgruntle,
- disgruntled,
- disgruntlement,
- dishearten,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- dislike,
- displease,
- displeasure,
- disquiet,
- disrespect,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissatisfied,
- dissatisfy,
- dissent,
- distaste,
- dread,
- dullness,
- emptiness,
- ennui,
- exasperation,
- exclusion,
- existential woe,
- flatness,
- gall,
- grimness,
- humorlessness,
- ill humor,
- ill nature,
- ill temper,
- indignation,
- infelicity,
- infestivity,
- inquietude,
- irritation,
- joylessness,
- lack of pleasure,
- leave unsatisfied,
- low estimation,
- low opinion,
- malaise,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- mirthlessness,
- misery,
- nausea,
- nongratification,
- nonsatisfaction,
- objection,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- ostracism,
- painfulness,
- protest,
- put out,
- rejection,
- resentfulness,
- resentment,
- savorlessness,
- sourness,
- spleen,
- staleness,
- tastelessness,
- tediousness,
- tedium,
- thumbs-down,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncomfortableness,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- ungratified,
- unhappiness,
- unhappy,
- unjoyfulness,
- unmirthfulness,
- unpleasure,
- unsatisfaction,
- vexation,
- vexation of spirit,
- wretchedness
- dingdong
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- heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong" related words >
- alliterating,
- alliteration,
- alliterative,
- asshole,
- assiduously,
- assonance,
- assonant,
- belabored,
- boob,
- booby,
- change ringing,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chiming,
- chink,
- chump,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- cliche-ridden,
- clink,
- clockwork regularity,
- constancy,
- daily round,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingbat,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- dong,
- donging,
- drone,
- earnestly,
- even pace,
- even tenor,
- exhaustively,
- galoot,
- gong,
- goof,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- intensely,
- invariability,
- jangle,
- jerk,
- jerk-off,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jinglejangle,
- jingling,
- jog-trot,
- klutz,
- knell,
- knelling,
- labored,
- monologue,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- mutt,
- near rhyme,
- orderliness,
- painstakingly,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- pitter-patter,
- prize sap,
- regularity,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- ring,
- ring changes,
- ringing,
- sameliness,
- sameness,
- sap,
- saphead,
- sawney,
- schlemiel,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- smoothness,
- sound,
- sound a knell,
- stale repetition,
- tedious,
- tedium,
- thoroughly,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabulate,
- toll,
- tolling,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- undeviation,
- undifferentiation,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unremittingly,
- unvariation
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- actual,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- banal,
- banausic,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- boring,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- candid,
- characterless,
- chaste,
- classic,
- classical,
- cliched,
- commercial,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- direct,
- drab,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- everyday,
- factual,
- flat,
- frank,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- hackneyed,
- ho-hum,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- humdrum,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- irksome,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- lean,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- lowly,
- lusterless,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- moneymaking,
- monotonous,
- mouldy,
- mundane,
- natural,
- neat,
- nondescript,
- open,
- ordinary,
- overdone,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poetryless,
- practicable,
- practical,
- prose,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- realistic,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- spare,
- staid,
- stale,
- stark,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stolid,
- straightforward,
- stuffy,
- tedious,
- threadbare,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- trite,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexceptional,
- unfanciful,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unnoteworthy,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unpoetical,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvarnished,
- utilitarian,
- vapid,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working
- abiding,
- accordant,
- alike,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- blah,
- broken-record,
- ceaseless,
- changeless,
- chattering,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- durable,
- dusty,
- enduring,
- equable,
- equal,
- even,
- everlasting,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flat,
- frozen,
- harping,
- homogeneous,
- humdrum,
- immobile,
- immutable,
- incessant,
- incommutable,
- inconvertible,
- indefeasible,
- inert,
- insusceptible of change,
- intact,
- intransmutable,
- invariable,
- inviolate,
- irretrievable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- jog-trot,
- lasting,
- level,
- long-winded,
- machine gun,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- methodic,
- monolithic,
- monotonous,
- noble,
- nonreturnable,
- nonreversible,
- of a piece,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- oscillating,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- prolix,
- pulsating,
- quiescent,
- rapid,
- regular,
- remaining,
- repeated,
- reverseless,
- rigid,
- robotlike,
- singsong,
- smooth,
- solid,
- stabile,
- stable,
- staccato,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stuttering,
- sustained,
- systematic,
- tedious,
- torpid,
- treadmill,
- unalterable,
- unalterative,
- unaltered,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- undeflectable,
- undestroyed,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- uneventful,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- uniform,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmodifiable,
- unremitting,
- unrestorable,
- unreturnable,
- unruffled,
- unshifting,
- unstopped,
- unsusceptible,
- unvariable,
- unvaried,
- vibrating
- jog trot
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- an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot related words >
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- andante,
- assonant,
- beat,
- beaten path,
- belabored,
- blah,
- broken-record,
- bureaucracy,
- bureaucratism,
- burst,
- burst of speed,
- canter,
- chanting,
- chiming,
- chinoiserie,
- claudication,
- cliche-ridden,
- crawl,
- creep,
- daily grind,
- dash,
- dead march,
- dead run,
- dingdong,
- dogtrot,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- everlasting,
- flank speed,
- flat-out speed,
- footpace,
- forced draft,
- full gallop,
- funeral march,
- gallop,
- grind,
- groove,
- hand gallop,
- harping,
- headlong rush,
- heavy right foot,
- high lope,
- hobble,
- humdrum,
- invariable,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog,
- labored,
- leisurely gait,
- limp,
- long-winded,
- lope,
- lumbering pace,
- maximum speed,
- mincing steps,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- open throttle,
- plod,
- plunge,
- prolix,
- race,
- rack,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- round,
- routine,
- run,
- rush,
- rut,
- saunter,
- scamper,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- shamble,
- shuffle,
- singsong,
- slouch,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- sprint,
- spurt,
- squirrel cage,
- stroll,
- tedious,
- track,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- trudge,
- uneventful,
- unvarying,
- waddle,
- walk,
- well-worn groove,
- wide-open speed
- colorless
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- weak in color; not colorful
- lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" related words >
- abstract,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- aloof,
- anemic,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- barren,
- blah,
- blanched,
- bland,
- blank,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- blurry,
- boring,
- cadaverous,
- characterless,
- chloranemic,
- cold,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- detached,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- dispassionate,
- doughy,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- feeble,
- flat,
- ghastly,
- gray,
- haggard,
- hazy,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- impersonal,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- livid,
- low-spirited,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- milk-and-water,
- muddy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- obscure,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poker-faced,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- remote,
- sallow,
- sickly,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tallow-faced,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- toneless,
- uncolored,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vapid,
- wan,
- washed out,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wishy-washy,
- withdrawn,
- wooden
- mediocre
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- poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
- moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" related words >
- adulterated,
- amidships,
- artless,
- average,
- bad,
- banal,
- base,
- betwixt and between,
- blemished,
- central,
- common,
- commonplace,
- core,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dull,
- equatorial,
- equidistant,
- erroneous,
- everyday,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- found wanting,
- garden-variety,
- half-assed,
- halfway,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadept,
- inadequate,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- indifferent,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexact,
- inexpert,
- inferior,
- insipid,
- insufficient,
- interior,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- lacking,
- lackluster,
- little,
- makeshift,
- maladroit,
- mean,
- medial,
- median,
- mediterranean,
- medium,
- mesial,
- mezzo,
- mid,
- middle,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middlemost,
- middling,
- midland,
- midmost,
- midships,
- midway,
- mixed,
- moderate,
- modest,
- namby-pamby,
- no great shakes,
- normal,
- not bad,
- not comparable,
- not in it,
- not perfect,
- nuclear,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- off,
- ordinary,
- out of it,
- partial,
- passable,
- patchy,
- pedestrian,
- petty,
- poor,
- respectable,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- second-rate,
- shabby,
- short,
- sketchy,
- skill-less,
- small,
- so so,
- so-so,
- standard,
- tedious,
- third-rate,
- thoughtless,
- tolerable,
- trivial,
- unapt,
- undeft,
- undeveloped,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- undistinguished,
- uneven,
- unexceptional,
- unfacile,
- unfinished,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- unintelligent,
- unperfected,
- unproficient,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- usual,
- vapid,
- wanting,
- wishy-washy
- sterile
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- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- antiseptic,
- arid,
- aseptic,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boiled,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- decontaminated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disinfected,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hygienic,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- noncreative,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasteurized,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- profitless,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- rewardless,
- sanitary,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterilized,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncontaminated,
- uncreative,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- uninfected,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unplowed,
- unpolluted,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- banal,
- betwixt and between,
- bland,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- dead,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dizzy,
- dull,
- eccentric,
- enervated,
- erratic,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fowl,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inane,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indifferent,
- infirm,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- insipid,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- languid,
- listless,
- mazy,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- mercurial,
- middling,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moderate,
- modest,
- moody,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- pantywaist,
- pappy,
- passable,
- pulpy,
- rambling,
- respectable,
- restless,
- roving,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- scatterbrained,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- so-so,
- spasmodic,
- spiceless,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thin,
- tolerable,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unflavored,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsavory,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- vapid,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- waterish,
- watery,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- whimsical
- arid
collapse
- lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" related words >
- Saharan,
- academic,
- acarpous,
- anhydrous,
- athirst,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bone-dry,
- bookish,
- boring,
- bromidic,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- desert,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- droughty,
- dry,
- dry as dust,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- high and dry,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- impotent,
- inane,
- ineffectual,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- juiceless,
- lackluster,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- like parchment,
- literal,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- moistureless,
- monotonous,
- mundane,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- sandy,
- sapless,
- sere,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- unanimated,
- uncultivated,
- undamped,
- unfanciful,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unplowed,
- unpoetic,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- unwatered,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- waterless,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- without issue,
- wooden
- humdrum
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- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" related words >
- alliterating,
- alliteration,
- alliterative,
- assonance,
- assonant,
- banal,
- banausic,
- belabored,
- blah,
- bore,
- boring,
- broken record,
- broken-record,
- buttonholer,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- common,
- commonplace,
- crashing bore,
- dim,
- dingdong,
- drab,
- drag,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- drone,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- everlasting,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- gray,
- harping,
- headache,
- insipid,
- invariability,
- invariable,
- irk,
- irksomeness,
- jejune,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- long-winded,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- mundane,
- near rhyme,
- nuisance,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- pitter-patter,
- plain,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- prolix,
- prosaic,
- proser,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitious,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitive,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- routine,
- same,
- sameliness,
- samely,
- sameness,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- stale repetition,
- stodgy,
- tedious,
- tedium,
- the beaten track,
- the daily round,
- the round,
- the squirrel cage,
- the treadmill,
- the weary round,
- tiresome,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- twaddler,
- unchanging,
- undeviation,
- undiversified,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexciting,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unpoetic,
- unrelieved,
- unromantic,
- unvariation,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- wearisome,
- wearisome sameness,
- wet blanket
- ponderous
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- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
- labored and dull; "a ponderous speech" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- arid,
- awkward,
- barren,
- big,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- boring,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- characterless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- cold,
- colorless,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fat,
- fingers all thumbs,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- grandiloquent,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- heavyweight,
- hefty,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- huge,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- impractical,
- inane,
- inconvenient,
- inelegant,
- inexcitable,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- labored,
- laborious,
- large,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- loutish,
- low-spirited,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- oafish,
- overdone,
- overweight,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- perverse,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- prolix,
- sesquipedalian,
- sloppy,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- turgid,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unlively,
- unmanageable,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- verbose,
- weighty,
- windy,
- wooden,
- wordy
- stodgy
collapse
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
- heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" related words >
- Spartan,
- adhesive,
- aloof,
- amylaceous,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- banausic,
- barren,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- characterless,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cold,
- colorless,
- curdled,
- dead,
- deadly,
- detached,
- dim,
- dismal,
- doughy,
- dowdy,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- fogyish,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- indomitable,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- inspissated,
- jejune,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-suffering,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- mucilaginous,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- patient,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- phlegmatic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- ravaged with age,
- resigned,
- ropy,
- self-controlled,
- senile,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- starchy,
- sterile,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stringy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tiresome,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- turgid,
- unassailable,
- unconcerned,
- unexciting,
- unimaginative,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- vapid,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- weighty,
- wooden
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- aghast,
- anemic,
- appalled,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- barren,
- blah,
- blanched,
- blank,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- cadaverous,
- characterless,
- chloranemic,
- cold,
- colorless,
- cowed,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- dismal,
- doughy,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- flat,
- frozen,
- ghastly,
- gray,
- gray with fear,
- haggard,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- intimidated,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- livid,
- low-spirited,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- muddy,
- neutral,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- paralyzed,
- pasty,
- pedestrian,
- petrified,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- sallow,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- sickly,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- superficial,
- tallow-faced,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- toneless,
- uncolored,
- undone,
- unlively,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vapid,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waterish,
- watery,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wooden
- tire
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- hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- get tired of something or somebody related words >
- annoy,
- apparel,
- array,
- attire,
- balloon tire,
- be infinitely repetitive,
- be tedious,
- beat,
- bedeck,
- bedrape,
- belted bias tire,
- belted radial tire,
- bias tire,
- blow,
- bore,
- bother,
- break down,
- bundle up,
- burden,
- burn out,
- clothe,
- collapse,
- crack up,
- crush one,
- debilitate,
- deck,
- dight,
- disgust,
- do in,
- do up,
- drag on,
- drain,
- drape,
- dress,
- droop,
- drop,
- dud,
- enclothe,
- endue,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- ennui,
- enrobe,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- enwrap,
- exasperate,
- exhaust,
- exhaustion,
- fag,
- fag out,
- faint,
- fatigue,
- felly,
- flag,
- frazzle,
- garb,
- garment,
- gasp,
- get tired,
- give out,
- glut,
- go on forever,
- grow weary,
- habilitate,
- harass,
- haunt,
- haunt the memory,
- invest,
- irk,
- irritate,
- jade,
- knock out,
- knock up,
- lap,
- lassitude,
- muffle up,
- nauseate,
- nonskid tire,
- obsess,
- oppress,
- overfatigue,
- overstrain,
- overtire,
- overweary,
- pall,
- pant,
- peter out,
- play out,
- pneumatic tire,
- poop,
- poop out,
- prey on,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- puff,
- puff and blow,
- radial tire,
- rag out,
- raiment,
- retread,
- retreaded tire,
- rim,
- robe,
- run down,
- run out,
- safety tire,
- sap,
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- sheathe,
- shroud,
- sicken,
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- snow tire,
- studded tire,
- succumb,
- swaddle,
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- tire to death,
- tiredness,
- tubeless tire,
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- use up,
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- wear,
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- wear on,
- wear out,
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- weariness,
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- weigh upon,
- weight down,
- wheeze,
- white sidewall tire,
- wilt,
- wind,
- winter tire,
- worn-out,
- wrap,
- wrap up
- monotone
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- an unchanging intonation
- a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) related words >
- AF,
- Indian file,
- alliterating,
- alliteration,
- alliterative,
- array,
- articulation,
- assonance,
- assonant,
- audio frequency,
- banausic,
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- catenation,
- chain,
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- cliche-ridden,
- clockwork regularity,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- constancy,
- continuum,
- course,
- cycle,
- daily round,
- descent,
- dim,
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- dreary,
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- endless belt,
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- even pace,
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- file,
- filiation,
- frequency,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- harmonic,
- harping,
- hum,
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- intonation,
- invariability,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
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- monotonic,
- monotonous,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- near rhyme,
- nexus,
- orderliness,
- overtone,
- partial,
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- pedestrian,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- pitch,
- pitter-patter,
- plenum,
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- progression,
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- range,
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- recurrence,
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- repetitiousness,
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- sameliness,
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- single file,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- smoothness,
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- stale repetition,
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- toneless,
- tonelessness,
- train,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- undeviation,
- undifferentiation,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unvariation,
- windrow
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