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Humdrum vs Customary - What's the difference?

humdrum | customary |

As adjectives the difference between humdrum and customary

is that humdrum is lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

As nouns the difference between humdrum and customary

is that humdrum is the quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness while customary is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

humdrum

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.
  • * 2010 ,
  • I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum , and heat of the here and now.

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    * See also

    customary

    English

    Noun

    (customaries)
  • A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
  • *1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
  • *:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
  • Quotations

    * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.

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    Derived terms

    * customarily