Meanings
- UKinformalnot comparableExhibiting 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 Bloomberg2 more examples
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 2019Of 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
Origin
Translations
German eintönig, irgendwie gleich
- eintönigwithout variety
- irgendwie gleichwithout variety
- irgendwie ähnlichwithout variety
Norwegian Bokmål ensformig
- ensformigwithout variety
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samey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/samey
“samey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/samey. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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