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"
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
cause to be bored
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
the act of drilling
DRAB
causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
of a light brownish green color
lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
DRY
unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas"
used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight"
lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown
(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"
not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes"
free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
not producing milk; "a dry cow"
a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholi
HOHUM
HUMDRUM
the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "
LACKLUSTER
lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
LACKLUSTRE
lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
LEADY
Resembling lead.
SLOW
without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"
of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news";
UNINTERESTING
characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"