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Definition of humdrum in English: humdrumadjective ˈhʌmdrʌmˈhəmˌdrəm Lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous. 无聊的，无变化的；乏味的；单调的 单调的日常事务。 Example sentencesExamples - She'd gone about her morning with its usual humdrum routine.
- The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly.
- But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
- Having said that, however, there is something in the humdrum routine of everyday life in different cold and gray places around the world that fascinates me.
- I used to feel almost trapped by the normal, everyday, humdrum life.
- It would be nice to go beyond the usual everyday humdrum routine, I should think.
- But even before they did, we felt it: the humdrum monotony of the one-day game has grated for a while now.
- Just a humdrum boring evening, she thought and sighed.
- It gives such a poignancy to my usually humdrum life.
- It happened that way every day - get up, go to work, come back, sleep - and sometimes she wished something would happen to break the humdrum routine.
- You'd seen good marriages and bad marriages, but yours wasn't going to be one of those humdrum ones, or tedious ones, or ‘bad’ ones.
- He could not get up everyday and face the daily humdrum life of a high school English teacher.
- I find a lot of the people I see everyday very humdrum and old beyond their years.
- This was inevitably followed by a return to the humdrum reality of everyday life.
- What were you reading when I came to take you away from your usually boring, humdrum life for a time?
- Are you stuck in a rut, longing to be creative but unable to break free from the humdrum routine of your daily job?
- While it lasts it prevents us from making shoes, writing books, from engaging in either the humdrum routine of life or in making crucial decisions.
- We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life.
- His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.
- Once the honeymoon's over and you settle into the humdrum pattern of everyday life, it's easy to get bored.
Synonyms mundane, dull, dreary, boring, tedious, monotonous, banal, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian, customary, regular, normal North American garden variety informal typical, vanilla, plain vanilla British informal common or garden rare banausic
noun ˈhʌmdrʌmˈhəmˌdrəm mass nounMonotonous routine. an escape from the humdrum of his life 逃离他单调的生活。 Example sentencesExamples - Their suburban Boston clients envisioned their basement home theater as a place to escape from the humdrum of daily life.
- She was eleven years old now, alone in this little village that was surrounded by the humdrum of the daily activities of the city.
- One of the advantages of the summer recess is that it gives us politicians the opportunity to take a step back from the humdrum of party politics and time to think, listen and talk to others outside politics, as well as to learn.
- Filled with their limited aspirations, men in shades and baseball hats peer into the sky at the battery-driven model planes which allow them to escape the humdrum; to soar above the everyday.
- The sitcom frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work.
- Just watching them and thinking that there had to be something more in this life for all of us than the everyday humdrum.
- Superficially, the humdrum of life continues, with routine largely unruffled.
- They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
- You can win tickets to this new Australian movie about a man who escapes the humdrum of his suburban existence by floating away on a chair attached to helium balloons and finds new directions in life.
- Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell.
- When Canadians are on the road, an astounding 86 per cent choose to listen to music to beat the highway humdrum.
- There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well.
- You'd be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn.
- Oftentimes, Drew just couldn't be bothered with the daily humdrum of people buzzing along in her life, (like a hive of visionless bees).
- I saw my sport as a release from the everyday humdrum of life and as a sort of freedom from those things.
Synonyms weariness, ennui, lack of enthusiasm, lack of interest, lack of concern, apathy, uninterestedness, unconcern, languor, sluggishness, accidie, malaise, world-weariness
OriginMid 16th century: probably a reduplication of hum1. Definition of humdrum in US English: humdrumadjectiveˈhəmˌdrəmˈhəmˌdrəm Lacking excitement or variety; dull; monotonous. 无聊的，无变化的；乏味的；单调的 单调的日常事务。 Example sentencesExamples - Just a humdrum boring evening, she thought and sighed.
- What were you reading when I came to take you away from your usually boring, humdrum life for a time?
- You'd seen good marriages and bad marriages, but yours wasn't going to be one of those humdrum ones, or tedious ones, or ‘bad’ ones.
- His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.
- Are you stuck in a rut, longing to be creative but unable to break free from the humdrum routine of your daily job?
- Having said that, however, there is something in the humdrum routine of everyday life in different cold and gray places around the world that fascinates me.
- This was inevitably followed by a return to the humdrum reality of everyday life.
- While it lasts it prevents us from making shoes, writing books, from engaging in either the humdrum routine of life or in making crucial decisions.
- She'd gone about her morning with its usual humdrum routine.
- The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly.
- Once the honeymoon's over and you settle into the humdrum pattern of everyday life, it's easy to get bored.
- I used to feel almost trapped by the normal, everyday, humdrum life.
- I find a lot of the people I see everyday very humdrum and old beyond their years.
- But even before they did, we felt it: the humdrum monotony of the one-day game has grated for a while now.
- It would be nice to go beyond the usual everyday humdrum routine, I should think.
- It gives such a poignancy to my usually humdrum life.
- But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
- We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life.
- He could not get up everyday and face the daily humdrum life of a high school English teacher.
- It happened that way every day - get up, go to work, come back, sleep - and sometimes she wished something would happen to break the humdrum routine.
Synonyms mundane, dull, dreary, boring, tedious, monotonous, banal, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian, customary, regular, normal
nounˈhəmˌdrəmˈhəmˌdrəm Dullness; monotony. 无聊；单调 an escape from the humdrum of his life 逃离他单调的生活。 Example sentencesExamples - Oftentimes, Drew just couldn't be bothered with the daily humdrum of people buzzing along in her life, (like a hive of visionless bees).
- Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell.
- Superficially, the humdrum of life continues, with routine largely unruffled.
- When Canadians are on the road, an astounding 86 per cent choose to listen to music to beat the highway humdrum.
- I saw my sport as a release from the everyday humdrum of life and as a sort of freedom from those things.
- Filled with their limited aspirations, men in shades and baseball hats peer into the sky at the battery-driven model planes which allow them to escape the humdrum; to soar above the everyday.
- The sitcom frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work.
- Just watching them and thinking that there had to be something more in this life for all of us than the everyday humdrum.
- They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
- She was eleven years old now, alone in this little village that was surrounded by the humdrum of the daily activities of the city.
- You'd be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn.
- You can win tickets to this new Australian movie about a man who escapes the humdrum of his suburban existence by floating away on a chair attached to helium balloons and finds new directions in life.
- One of the advantages of the summer recess is that it gives us politicians the opportunity to take a step back from the humdrum of party politics and time to think, listen and talk to others outside politics, as well as to learn.
- There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well.
- Their suburban Boston clients envisioned their basement home theater as a place to escape from the humdrum of daily life.
Synonyms weariness, ennui, lack of enthusiasm, lack of interest, lack of concern, apathy, uninterestedness, unconcern, languor, sluggishness, accidie, malaise, world-weariness
OriginMid 16th century: probably a reduplication of hum. |