annoying, arid, banal, blah, bland, bore, boresome, bothersome, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead, desolate, drab, dragged out, drawn out, dreary, drudging, dry-as-dust, dry, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguing, featureless, fixing, flat, frustrating, goring, gray, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lifeless, long-drawn-out, long-drawn, long-winded, mediocre, mind-numbing, monochrome, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, plain, plain vanilla, platitudinous, plebeian, prolix, prosaic, repetitious, repetitive, routine, same, samely, soporific, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stuporific, tame, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome, tiring, trite, unanimated, undecorated, unending, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninteresting, unreadable, unrelieved, unstimulating, unvaried, unwatchable, vapid, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, windy, wordy, yawny, zero

acupunctuation, acupuncture, broach, drill hole, empiercement, impalement, lancing, penetration, perforation, piercing, pricking, punching, puncture, puncturing, skewering, terebration, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, trepanning, trephining