humdrum 音标拼音: [h'ʌmdr
, ʌm]
a . 平凡的,单调的,无聊的
n . 平凡,单调,无聊
vi . 作单调的动作
平凡的,单调的,无聊的平凡,单调,无聊作单调的动作
humdrum adj 1 :
not challenging ;
dull and lacking excitement ; "
an unglamorous job greasing engines " [
synonym : {
commonplace },
{
humdrum }, {
prosaic }, {
unglamorous }, {
unglamourous }]
2 :
tediously repetitious or lacking in variety ; "
a humdrum existence ;
all work and no play "; "
nothing is so monotonous as the sea " [
synonym : {
humdrum }, {
monotonous }]
n 1 :
the quality of wearisome constancy ,
routine ,
and lack of variety ; "
he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work "; "
he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners "; "
he hated the sameness of the food the college served " [
synonym : {
monotony }, {
humdrum }, {
sameness }]
Humdrum \
Hum "
drum `\,
a .
Monotonous ;
dull ;
commonplace . "
A humdrum crone ." --
Bryant .
[
1913 Webster ]
Humdrum \
Hum "
drum `\,
n .
1 .
A dull fellow ;
a bore . --
B .
Jonson .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Monotonous and tedious routine .
[
1913 Webster ]
Dissatisfied with humdrum . --
The Nation .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
A low cart with three wheels ,
drawn by one horse .
Humect 122 Moby Thesaurus words for "
humdrum ":
alliterating ,
alliteration ,
alliterative ,
assonance ,
assonant ,
banal ,
banausic ,
belabored ,
blah ,
bore ,
boring ,
broken record ,
broken -
record ,
buttonholer ,
chanting ,
chime ,
chiming ,
cliche -
ridden ,
common ,
commonplace ,
crashing bore ,
dim ,
dingdong ,
drab ,
drag ,
drearisome ,
dreary ,
drip ,
drone ,
dry ,
dryasdust ,
dull ,
dusty ,
everlasting ,
flat ,
flat tire ,
frightful bore ,
gray ,
harping ,
headache ,
insipid ,
invariability ,
invariable ,
irk ,
irksomeness ,
jejune ,
jingle ,
jingle -
jangle ,
jog -
trot ,
labored ,
long -
winded ,
matter -
of -
fact ,
monotone ,
monotonous ,
monotonousness ,
monotony ,
mundane ,
near rhyme ,
nuisance ,
ordinary ,
pedestrian ,
pest ,
pill ,
pitter -
patter ,
plain ,
plodding ,
poetryless ,
prolix ,
prosaic ,
proser ,
prosing ,
prosy ,
repeated sounds ,
repetitious ,
repetitiousness ,
repetitive ,
repetitiveness ,
rhyme ,
rhymed ,
rhyming ,
routine ,
same ,
sameliness ,
samely ,
sameness ,
singsong ,
slant rhyme ,
stale repetition ,
stodgy ,
tedious ,
tedium ,
the beaten track ,
the daily round ,
the round ,
the squirrel cage ,
the treadmill ,
the weary round ,
tiresome ,
treadmill ,
trot ,
twaddler ,
unchanging ,
undeviation ,
undiversified ,
unembellished ,
uneventful ,
unexciting ,
unidealistic ,
unimaginative ,
unimpassioned ,
uninteresting ,
unnecessary repetition ,
unpoetic ,
unrelieved ,
unromantic ,
unvariation ,
unvaried ,
unvarying ,
vapid ,
wearisome ,
wearisome sameness ,
wet blanket
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