Antonyms for ho-hum
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hoh-huhm, -huhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhoʊˈhʌm, -ˌhʌm |
- active
- agitated
- appetizing
- bright
- changing
- clear
- coarse
- cold
- creative
- delicious
- easy
- entertaining
- enthusiastic
- eventful
- ever-changing
- excited
- exciting
- exhilarating
- facile
- fierce
- firm
- flappable
- fun
- hard
- harsh
- healthy
- hot
- imaginative
- interesting
- light
- lively
- loud
- nervous
- nice
- noisy
- original
- pleasant
- pleasing
- rough
- severe
- sharp
- shining
- shiny
- spirited
- stimulating
- stormy
- strong
- tasty
- thinking
- trivial
- turbulent
- uncool
- unfriendly
- unkind
- unusual
- upset
- variable
- versatile
- violent
- wild
- yummy
Definition of ho-hum
Origin :- expression of boredom, by 1906. As an adjective, by 1956.
- As in insipid : adj dull, uninteresting
- As in lackluster : adj dull, lifeless
- As in mild : adj gentle, temperate, nonirritating
- As in monotonous : adj all the same, remaining the same
- As in prosaic : adj unimaginative
- As in tedious : adj dull, monotonous
- As in tiresome : adj irritating, exasperating
- Brand name of one of those mild little red Baby Goudas that make you say "Ho-hum."
- Extract from : « The Complete Book of Cheese » by Robert Carlton Brown
Synonyms for ho-hum
- a bit much
- actual
- anemic
- annoying
- arduous
- arid
- balmy
- banal
- banausic
- beige
- benign
- benignant
- blah
- bland
- blind
- boresome
- boring
- breezy
- bromidic
- burdensome
- calm
- characterless
- choice
- clean
- clear
- clement
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- cool
- dainty
- dark
- dead
- delicate
- demanding
- demulcent
- diddly
- difficult
- dim
- drab
- drag
- dragging
- draggy
- dreary
- driveling
- droning
- drudging
- dry
- dull
- dull as dishwater
- dusty
- easy
- emollient
- endless
- enervating
- enervative
- everyday
- exacting
- exhausting
- exquisite
- factual
- faint
- fatiguing
- feeble
- fine
- flat
- flat as pancake
- garden-variety
- genial
- hackneyed
- hard
- heavy
- hefty
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- inane
- innocuous
- insipid
- irksome
- jading
- jejune
- laborious
- lackluster
- laid-back
- leaden
- lenient
- lenitive
- lifeless
- light
- limp
- literal
- long-drawn-out
- lowly
- lukewarm
- lusterless
- matte
- matter-of-fact
- medium
- mellow
- mild
- moderate
- mollifying
- monotone
- monotonous
- mortal
- mundane
- muted
- nebbish
- nothing
- nothing much
- nowhere
- obscure
- onerous
- oppressive
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pacific
- peaceful
- pedestrian
- placid
- plain
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- plodding
- pointless
- poky
- practicable
- practical
- prosaic
- prose
- prosy
- puts one to sleep
- recurrent
- reiterated
- repetitious
- repetitive
- routine
- samely
- sing-song
- slight
- slow
- smooth
- snooze
- soft
- sombre
- soothing
- soporific
- spiritless
- square
- stale
- strenuous
- stupid
- subdued
- sunny
- tame
- tedious
- tempered
- tenuous
- tepid
- thin
- tired
- tiresome
- tiring
- toneless
- too much
- tough
- treadmill
- trite
- trying
- unchanged
- unchanging
- uncool
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- unexciting
- uniform
- unimaginative
- uninflected
- uninspired
- uninspiring
- uninteresting
- unrelieved
- untroubled
- unvaried
- unvarying
- vanilla
- vapid
- vexatious
- warm
- watery
- weak
- weariful
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
- wimpy
- wishy-washy
- workaday
- yawn
- zero
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