Long, lengthy, protracted, esp. excessively, tediously, or dispiritingly so; (of a road or way) long and wearisome; (of speech or other…

Tedious, dreary; strange; = elenge, adj.

Destitute of joy; having, feeling, or manifesting no joy; sad, cheerless. †Sometimes const. of.

‘Wearisome by continuance’ (Johnson); long and tiresome: said of anything occupying time, as a task, or a journey; esp. of a speech or narrative…

That causes weariness; that tires one's endurance or patience.

Irksome, wearisome, tedious; in graver sense, burdensome to the spirit.

Of something produced or constructed: entailing labour in production or execution; produced by or resulting from hard work. Formerly also: †causing…

Having the property of tiring by continuance, sameness, or lack of interest; wearisome, tedious.

Wearisome, tedious, tiresome; troublesome, burdensome, annoying. Formerly also, in wider sense, Distressing, painful; in early use, Disgusting…

Causing weariness through monotony, or the continuance of uncongenial circumstances; tedious.

figurative. Having some quality likened to the hard dry consistence of wood, or to its inferior… Lacking grace, liveliness, interest, or the like…

Tedious; irksome.

Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous… of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a…

transferred and figurative. With allusion to the want of elasticity in the metal: Inert, spiritless, depressing.

Of persons: Mentally unproductive; unresponsive, dull, yielding no mental fruit.

transferred. Dull, lacking in animation.

Not animated, bright, or vivid; dull.

Causing depression or ennui; tedious, uninteresting, uneventful; the reverse of exhilarating or enlivening.

Of a dreary character; lonely and desolate.

= dreary, adj. 4.

Resembling lead; leaden (in various senses). Cf. plumbeous, adj. Now rare.

Wearying, tiring. Obsolete. rare.

Dismal, gloomy; repulsively dull or uninteresting. (The ordinary current sense: apparently a later weakening of 2.)

= incurious, adj. 7.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

figurative. Void of interest or event; vacant, ‘having nothing in it;’ as a blank look-out.

Uninteresting; causing lack of interest.

Not interesting, exciting, or enjoyable; tiresome, boring, dull. Now rare.

figurative. Void of activity, excitement, or interest.

Devoid of interest or liveliness; dull, depressing, dismal, dreary. (Only in form triste, as French.)

Chiefly of a life or lifestyle: resembling that of a plant, esp. uneventful, featureless, passive, monotonous.

Tedious, wearisome.

(un-, prefix1 affix 4.)

(un-, prefix1 affix 4.)

Dismal, gloomy; cheerless; miserable as a result of cold, illness, etc.

That causes tedium or ennui.

Having no theme or subject of interest.

Characterized by yawns or (much) yawning; inclined to, or provocative of, yawning.

Exhausting, tiring; enfeebling by continued strain or irritation. Also wearing-out.

transferred. Lacking in freshness, interest, or smartness.

Sluggish, dull, spiritless. Also as adv.

tedious.

figurative. Dry, uninteresting, barren, jejune.

wanting in lustre, dull.

That annoys, wearies, or causes ennui.

transferred. Without any prominent mark or point of interest; uninteresting.

colloquial. Cf. fast, adj. 9. Dull or tedious in character; boring, tiresome. Obsolete.

Characterized by heaviness, dullness, or want of vivacity.

(rare.)

In various figurative senses. ‘Dry as dust’, uninteresting. Also, unsatisfying, inconclusive, poor; esp. in dusty answer.

Resembling, relating to, or having the characteristics of a cabbage.

colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Tiresome, esp. through repetition or familiarity. Frequently in to get old.

figurative and in extended use. colloquial. Wretched, poor, miserable, gloomy; boring, depressing.

figurative. Dull; wanting brightness or colour.

Devoid of interest.

attributive or as adj. in sense 3, dull, unsophisticated; inferior, poor (U.S. colloquial).

Tending to be a bore, boring.

figurative. Dull, heavy; wanting in gaiety or brightness. of a person, ceremony, one's life. Also applied to other objects, activities, etc.

Prim, formal, strait-laced, pompous; boring, conventional.

figurative. Sluggish, tedious; confused and undefined, ‘muddy’.

Boring; conventional; uncongenial; unpleasant. colloquial (originally U.S.).

Dull, unexciting; pretentious.

Belonging or going nowhere; of or from nowhere; non-existent. In later use: insignificant, unsatisfactory, ‘dead-end’ (frequently colloquial).

Unprepossessing, unattractive; dreary.

Extremely dull, tiresome, or boring.

Characterized by laborious or tedious movement or progress; sluggish; slow-moving. Cf. schlep, v.

Bad; harmful; unfashionable, boring. Esp. in the anti-drug slogan crack is wack and variants.