samey en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈseɪmi/
Etymology
Etymology tree English same Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English samey From same + -y.
Meanings
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(UK, informal, not-comparable) Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.
2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg:This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.
2019 May 23, Tony Naylor, “No wonder Jamie’s went bust: Brits have lost their appetite for samey chains”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019: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.
2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
Deriveds
Translations (4)
de irgendwie gleich (without variety) · nb ensformig (without variety) · de eintönig (without variety) · de irgendwie ähnlich (without variety)