samey
Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
Adjective
- Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
- Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine. - 2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg:
- This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable. - 2019 May 23, Tony Naylor, “No wonder Jamie’s went bust: Brits have lost their appetite...
- Of course, there are only so many formerly blind people you can watch being given the gift of sight before it starts getting a little samey. - 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why...
Origin
Etymology tree English same Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English samey From same + -y.