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Synonyms

arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying;

Antonyms

absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting;

Near Antonyms

amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous;

animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling;

amusing, diverting, entertaining;

moving, poignant, touching;

alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating;

mesmerizing, spellbinding;

suspenseful;

arresting, provocative, tantalizing;

Related Words

aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless;

blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular;

annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating;

longsome;

palling;

draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing;

debilitating, enfeebling;

demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting;

common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid;

cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey);

Synonyms

all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entirely, even, exactly, fast, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, plumb [chiefly dialect], quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide;

Antonyms

half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly;

Near Antonyms

barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficially;

approximately, roughly, somewhat;

Related Words

absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedly;

basically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantially;

abundantly, copiously, generously, greatly;

Phrases

all the way, at length, down the line, down to the ground, for fair, in whole, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt, to the max;