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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1969 1. routine, dull <a ho-hum existence> 2. bored, indifferent <a ho-hum reaction>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

int. expressing boredom. Etymology: imit. of yawn

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see ho hum