| 单词 | humdrum |
| 释义 | humdrum (once / 4938 pages) adjn That class on 18th century feminist zoologists and their favorite poets? Surprisingly humdrum, or dull, tedious, and totally boring. Anything that you can call humdrum is so severely lacking in variety and excitement that it's sure to make you hum and drum your fingers out of boredom. Humdrum is an adjective to describe the unglamorous monotony of everyday routines. It's the same old thing, again and again, over and over. Humdrum can also mean predictable, mind-numbing and not very challenging — hopefully the complete opposite of your social life. WORD FAMILYhumdrum: humdrumly, humdrums USAGE EXAMPLES“And the tone of the creative was clever and outside the box for something as humdrum as taxes.” New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) There are no factories or the humdrum of trade. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) It somehow qualified as a humdrum effort for him. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj tediously repetitious or lacking in variety a humdrum existence Syn monotonous dull lacking in liveliness or animation 2adj not challenging; dull and lacking excitement Syn commonplace, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous unexciting not exciting 3n the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners Syn|Hyper monotony, sameness unvariedness characterized by an absence of variation |
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