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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

Meaning of "humdrum" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HUMDRUM

Rhyming compound, probably based on hum.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HUMDRUM

humdrum  [ˈhʌmˌdrʌm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUMDRUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Humdrum can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HUMDRUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Humdrum

Humdrum is an animated short film directed by Peter Peake. It was released in 1998 and produced by Aardman Animations and received an Oscar nomination for Animated Short Film and a BAFTA nomination in the same category.

Definition of humdrum in the English dictionary

The definition of humdrum in the dictionary is ordinary; dull. Other definition of humdrum is a monotonous routine, task, or person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUMDRUM


angstrom
ˈæŋstrʌm
breadcrumb
ˈbrɛdˌkrʌm
Brum
brʌm
crumb
krʌm
drum
drʌm
eardrum
ˈɪəˌdrʌm
grum
ɡrʌm
humstrum
ˈhʌmˌstrʌm
kettledrum
ˈkɛtəlˌdrʌm
rhumb
rʌm
rum
rʌm
scrum
skrʌm
strum
strʌm
thrum
θrʌm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUMDRUM

humbucker
humbug
humbuggable
humbugged
humbugger
humbuggery
humbugging
humbuzz
humdinger
humdrumness
humdudgeon
humdurgeon
Hume
Hume´s law
humect
humectant
humectate
humectation
humective
humeral

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUMDRUM

bass drum
bongo drum
brake drum
conga drum
conundrum
epidendrum
oil drum
panjandrum
side drum
snare drum
striped drum
the drum
Trivandrum
winding drum

Synonyms and antonyms of humdrum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HUMDRUM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «humdrum» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of humdrum

Translation of «humdrum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUMDRUM

Find out the translation of humdrum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of humdrum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «humdrum» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monótona
570 millions of speakers

English

humdrum
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीरस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رتابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

буднично
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monotonia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকাল্পনিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monotone
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Humdrum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eintönig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

平凡な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

평범한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Humdrum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thay đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சத்தத்தையே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आर्द्र्रम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monoton
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monotonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

humdrum
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

буденно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

humdrum
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πληκτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alledaags
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enformig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ensformig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of humdrum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMDRUM»

The term «humdrum» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.502 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMDRUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about humdrum

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6 QUOTES WITH «HUMDRUM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word humdrum.
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Bernard Cornwell
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
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Ian Frazier
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Joseph de Maistre
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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McG
I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own.
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Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMDRUM»

Discover the use of humdrum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to humdrum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance
It’s the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable Riley is on her way to fulfilling her dreams, or so she hopes.
Marthe Jocelyn, 2013
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HUMDRUM?
A suspense drama about a young lady who experiences a number of overwhelming events in one day as she fights to find her missing sister while at the same time races to prove her innocence of a mysterious crime she did not commit.
GUNTAS, 2012
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Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, ...
Fifteen years later, in his influential study of crime and detective fiction, Bloody Murder, Symons classified a group of Golden Age detective novelists under the heading “Humdrum,” a pejorative title for fiction writers who essentially, it seemed , ...
Curtis Evans, 2012
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Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes
The purpose of Humdrum is to facilitate the posing and answering of research questions in the field of music. Humdrum allows researchers to encode, manipulate, and output a wide variety of musically pertinent representations. Theoretically ...
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, 1997
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Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce
Eighty percent of sampled artists held humdrum jobs, 40 percent more than one. Yet median total (gross) earnings for various groups in this sample ranged between $10,000 and $20,000. The pattern is clear: the majority of artists support  ...
Richard E. Caves, 2000
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Richard Rorty
Accepting this sort of humdrum, philosophically unloaded sense of truth allows us to avoid the pitfalls of many of Rorty's formulations, which run aground by trying to avoid talk of our knowing truths about the world.23 Without a forthright ...
Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley, 2003
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Management and Innovation in the Media Industry
Following Caves (2000) - who distinguishes between "creative" and "humdrum" inputs in his work on the creative industries - we distinguish between "humdrum innovation" and "content creation".1 Humdrum innovation refers to the ...
Cinzia Dal Zotto, Hans van Kranenburg
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Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity
But the fact remains that it is possible simply to rest with humdrum realism, staying clear of representationalist readings into it; and failing to endorse humdrum realism is incoherent. The notion of humdrum truth similarly provides a response to ...
Gary Gutting, 1999
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Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, ...
ONE OF THE WORST PROBLEMS for those who don't observe the Sabbath day is that life can become so humdrum, every day the same — day after day! The pressures of work never let up; there is always something more to do. Our culture's ...
Marva J. Dawn, 1989
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HumDrum: A Graphic Novella
A short Novella detailing the misadventures of an unnamed protagonist and his lover.
Hendrix Reynolds, Noah Zukowski, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUMDRUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term humdrum is used in the context of the following news items.
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UFC Fight Night: Mir vs. Duffee – Winners and losers - Bloody Elbow
With little time to recover from the previous 22 fights, fans were made to endure a slew of humdrum decisions with sporadic finishes sprinkled in ... «Bloody Elbow, Jul 15»
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7 Reasons Why Roy Andersson's Latest Film is a Must-See - Indiewire
What's usually humdrum becomes unexpectedly profound under the director's watch. We learn that sometimes our physiology conflicts with our ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
3
Why I dream of the Great Wall of China » The Spectator
I was sad to leave them in Naivasha and return to my humdrum world because to me they seemed the very happiest of men. I asked them what ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Controversial documentary will benefit pro-life groups | Blogs | LifeSite
Imagine, if that truth were empirically reflected in our cosmos,” asks Delano. “Imagine if this tiny, humdrum planet, were actually shown to be of ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
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Boulevard | Movie Review | Arts & Entertainment | South Philly Review
Williams plays Nolan, a nearly three decade veteran of the banking industry whose humdrum life with wife Joy (Kathy Baker) is weighing on his ... «South Philly Review, Jul 15»
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Terror attacks to Thackeray death: 10 events that changed Mumbai …
So the daily commute is no longer a humdrum bus-train-bus ride. It's a sweeping, swirling, many-splendoured thing of new-age, high-speed ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
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Week two of Amazing Race Canada: Paragliding, taking selfies, and …
By and large, the tasks are fairly humdrum — with teams paragliding, taking selfies, painting murals, and putting on skimpy costumes to perform ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»
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Female noir book a surprise hit - Books | Tonight - IOL
Magpies scream overheard. Then the shock of the humdrum; a train jolts and screeches along the track, picking up speed as it heads towards ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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VIDEO and cinema review: Self/Less (From Wirral Globe)
What could have been a thought-provoking futuristic nightmare, begging tantalising theological questions, is reduced to a humdrum action ... «Wirral Globe, Jul 15»
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Million Doll Episode #02 Anime Review - The Fandom Post
His discovery of her basically brings light and life into his otherwise humdrum workaday life and it's when he meets her, and hopes to date her, ... «The Fandom Post, Jul 15»

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