routinishadj.
/ruːˈtiːnɪʃ/, /rʊˈtiːnɪʃ/, U.S. /ruˈtinɪʃ/ Of the nature of or characterized by routine; lacking variation, monotonous. Also: of a routine nature; usual, typical.
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routine1744
routinary1807
formal1818
routinish1830
jog-jog1837
clockworky1864
groove-like1902
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 425 There was nothing routinish in his Pilgrimage. He did not stroll about with cicerones and guide-books.
1878 Penn Monthly Dec. 962 Our worst danger is from the imitation of..English fashions, and their mechanical, routinish life.
1890 Rep. Commissioner of Educ. 1888–89 I. 573 A uniformity of text-books..serves only to make school work more mechanical and routinish and less individual and free.
1900 Wellesley Mag. 21 Feb. 255 Every function of the day is executed with a precision and pomp which is unvarying, but which never becomes routinish nor tiresome to the onlooker.
1962 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 Nov. 6/6 [The job of a stewardess is never] routinish... You don't have the same crew every time... You don't even have to make your approaching announcement the same way every time.
1993 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 14 Mar. i. 2 She tried to affect a business-as-usual air, as though that sort of thing was, well, routinish to her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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