dryasdust (?.)

• Jonathan Oldbuck
• Miniver Cheevy
• Pre-Raphaelite
• academic
• antiquarian
• antiquary
• antique collector
• antique dealer
• antique-car collector
• archaeologist
• archaist
• arid
• barren
• blah
• blank
• bloodless
• bookish
• bore
• broken-record
• bromidic
• buttonholer
• characterless
• classicist
• cold
• colorless
• crashing bore
• dead
• devoted to studies
• diligent
• dismal
• donnish
• drag
• draggy
• drearisome
• dreary
• drip
• dry
• dull
• dusty
• effete
• elephantine
• empty
• etiolated
• everlasting
• fade
• flat
• flat tire
• frightful bore
• harping
• headache
• heavy
• ho-hum
• hollow
• humdrum
• inane
• inexcitable
• insipid
• invariable
• jejune
• jog-trot
• laudator temporis acti
• leaden
• lifeless
• long-winded
• low-spirited
• mandarin
• medievalist
• monotonous
• nuisance
• owlish
• pale
• pallid
• pedantic
• pedestrian
• pest
• pill
• plodding
• pointless
• poky
• ponderous
• professorial
• prolix
• proser
• rabbinic
• scholarly
• scholastic
• singsong
• slow
• solemn
• spiritless
• sterile
• stiff
• stodgy
• studious
• stuffy
• superficial
• tasteless
• tedious
• treadmill
• twaddler
• uneventful
• uninteresting
• unlively
• unvarying
• vapid
• weariful
• wearisome
• wet blanket
• wooden