samey

English

Etymology

From same +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɪmi/
  • Rhymes: -eɪmi

Adjective

samey (not comparable)

  1. (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.

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