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