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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

a boring female person

Hello,

Can you think of the word that would describe a boring female person. Somebody who is unimaginative, withouth any special features that one could like, kind of a woman without a personality.
  

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There are lots of words for boring people but I can't think of any that would only apply to a woman.

— Nona the brit

  • There are lots of words for boring people but I can't think of any that would only apply to a woman.
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There are lots of words for boring people but I can't think of any that would only apply to a woman.
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Hello Nona nad others,

I am translating a column, also as a part of my diplomma paper. And in this column, a female author crticizes cheating husbands and somewhere in the texts she referrs to their wives as ''?'', she calls them like that (not meaning that she thinks they are boring, but the way their husbands see them). The author in question has chosen (if I literally translate it) a g
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"colorless" is a similar idea to "grey" and does mean dull. That may be your best choice, to stay true to the translation?
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Gray wouldn't be bad, IMO.
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If you want to keep the idea of colour, you could use colourless, but i think 'dull' would be the best for the meaning you now have given.
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How about "lackluster" or "monochrome"? These are quite unusual adjectives for people, but could convey that idea of colourlessness...
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0 Thank you all, I like colourless. Sorry for a delay in response. 0-
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0 I like colorless too.02br
01font00A colorless husband, a colorless wife, and two kids with just enough personality to make them snotty, but I'm confident they'll grow out of having personality. They lived in a colorless split-level home with colorless furnishings in a nondescript neighborhood.02br
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