samey
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪmi/
- Rhymes: -eɪmi
Adjective
samey (not comparable)
- (informal) Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
- 2019 May 23, Tony Naylor, “No wonder Jamie’s went bust: Brits have lost their appetite for samey chains”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 5 August 2019:
- This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.
- 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 7 June 2025:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
without variety
Further reading
- Eric Partridge (2005), “samey”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1664.