Humdrum: Definition and part of speech

Humdrum

  1. n. A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.
  2. a. Monotonous; dull; commonplace.
  3. n. A dull fellow; a bore.
  4. n. Monotonous and tedious routine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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