单词 | humdrum |
释义 | humdrumadj.n. A. adj. 1. Lacking variety; of a routine character; commonplace; monotonous; dull. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration D vj Because I rather vse a newe makinge of distinccion, than þe old accustumed Humtrum distinccion. 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii, in Wks. (1840) 400/2 A very hum-drum marriage this. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶6 The Hum-Drum Club..was made up of very honest Gentlemen, of peaceable Dispositions, that used to sit together, smoak their Pipes, and say nothing 'till Mid-night. 1782 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 236 We had rather a hum drum evening. 1823 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 158 I am writing in a sad, humdrum vein. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia Note C. (1873) 313 A plain humdrum Sermon. ΘΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective] twiredec888 orrathc1175 twofoldc1175 twifoldc1200 waveringc1315 uncertain1382 suspensec1440 mammeringa1450 flowing?1504 floghtering1521 vacillant1521 in a mammering1532 double-minded1552 unstaid1561 unresolute1570 unresolved?1571 staggeringa1577 frittle1579 irresolute1579 cheverel1583 off and on1583 halting1585 unsettleda1593 unresolving1599 demurring1607 waving1611 suspensive1614 hoveringa1616 startling1619 irresolved1621 hesitating1622 indetermined1628 variousa1643 branling1645 hesitant1647 non-sincere1656 hesitatious1657 humdrum1660 shuttlecock1660 yea-and-nay1672 swaying1688 interpendent1708 undetermined1718 Squadronec1720 hesitatorya1734 volanta1734 shilly-shally1734 dilly-dally1749 niffy-naffy1765 wiggle-waggle1778 undecided1779 undecisive1780 indecisive1787 conflicted1789 hesitative1795 undeciding1802 vacillating1814 yea-nay1827 demurrant1836 willy-nilly1839 shilly-shallying1842 oscillative1852 Hamletish1854 vacillatory1854 dilly-dallying1879 thistledown1897 weak-principled1913 not-quite1920 off-again on-again1923 dithery1931 havering1975 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adverb] in a waver1519 uncertainly1555 waveringlya1603 irresolutely1617 unresolvedly1621 off and ona1641 hesitantly1660 humdrum1660 irresolvedly1680 undecisively1771 hesitatingly1800 on or upon the waver1806 indecisively1828 vacillatinglya1849 oscillatively1852 hesitatively1881 shakenly1890 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [adjective] > decided, determined > not unjudged1563 humdrum1660 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb] indifferentlyc1374 indistinctlyc1420 confusedly?1531 undistinctly1548 confusely?c1550 without respect?c1550 without choice1576 intermixedlya1586 unrespectively1586 pell-mell1587 promiscuously1593 mixedly1597 indiscriminate1598 promiscually1602 swoopstake1603 promiscuous1616 irrespectively1624 muddily1648 indiscriminately1652 humdrum1660 indiscriminally1665 undistinguishingly1665 indeterminatelya1676 indiscriminatively1684 indistinguishably1689 indiscretely1698 indistinctively1699 undiscerningly1707 uncritically1763 indiscriminatingly1824 undiscriminatingly1894 unfastidiously1929 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 132 in Justice Vindicated He..divides Jus into Jus naturale, and voluntarium; which may signifie either of them, or both together hum drum. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 171 Shall we (quoth she) stand still hum drum, And see stout Bruin all alone By numbers basely overthrown? 1710 Brit. Apollo 7–9 Aug. Your Wiser Rival..Ne'er stood Hum Drum, with Shilly Shally. B. n. 1. A humdrum person; a dull, monotonous, commonplace fellow. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > lacking variety humdrum1601 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. i. sig. Bv I scorne it I, so I doe, to bee a consort for euerie hum-drum . View more context for this quotation 1710 Brit. Apollo 25–28 Aug. A Plodding Hum-Drum, A Schollar that's Grum. 1812 Religionism 59 Heed not the lazy beneficed hum-drums. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xviii. 294 There are none but hum-drums, and jog-trots. 2. a. Dullness, commonplaceness, monotony; dull monotonous talk; with a and plural, A humdrum saying, conversation, debate, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull talk humdrum1727 slack-jaw1797 slack lip1899 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness humdrum1727 woodenness1854 pedestrianism1858 monotone1871 blue-bookiness1909 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > dull writing or discourse prose1688 prosing1762 humdrum1840 1727 Art Speaking in Publick 71 Still in the same key to the tune of humdrum without either division or variety. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxxiv. 179 I am frequently forced to go to my harpsichord..and..silence his humdrum. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married III. xxiii. 12 To stand listening for an hour together to mama's humdrums. 1854 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 62 I have been to hear a debate, or a hum-drum, in the House of Lords. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 22 She was living with some intensity and escaping humdrum. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 dumpa1535 mubble fubbles1589 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 mood1609 blues1741 mopes1742 gloom1744 humdrums1757 dismals1764 horror1768 mournfuls1794 doldrum1811 doleful1822 glumps1825 jim-jams1896 katzenjammer1897 the sniffles1903 mopery1907 joes1916 woofits1918 cafard1924 jimmies1928 the blahs1969 downer1970 1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. xcvi. 172 I fear my Epistle will..give you the Hum-drums. Derivatives humˈdrummery n. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 52 The deity still that illumed my humdrummery, My Magnus Apollo was Robert Montgomery. humˈdrumminess n. (also humˈdrumness) the quality or state of being humdrum; humdrum action. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1886 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 2/3 A sort of humdrumness that seemed to steal into the ship's inner life. 1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 626/2 Plain men, of..fair capacities, and an unsurpassable humdrumminess of nature and deportment. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 72 To break out of orthodox humdrumness. humˈdrummish adj. characterized by humdrum, monotony, or dullness. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1731 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 385 Their two eldest daughters are beauties..but not entertaining, so we passed that day hum-drumish. humˈdrummishness n. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 414 His ‘discretion and taste’..mean humdrumishness and humbug. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). humdrumv. intransitive. To proceed in a humdrum, monotonous, or undecided fashion. Also to humdrum it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > proceed in monotonous manner humdrum1733 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 1733 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 27 Mar. I humdrum it on..endeavouring to write, but write nothing, merely out of indolence and want of spirits. 1825 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 223 If you stand hum-drumming [etc.]. 1862 J. L. Motley Let. Dec. in Corr. (1889) II. iii. 108 We are humdrumming on as usual. 1894 A. d'Heristal Discord. Life xii. 99 I cannot humdrum with him in the Darby and Joan style. Derivatives humˈdrumming adj. monotonous, commonplace. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1698 F. B. Free but Modest Censure 14 He is none of those hum~drumming Authors. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 189 To the humdrumming round, Wherein most men are bound, He furnishes pleasant variety. 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