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Significados de humdrum en inglés

portugués
monotonia
catalán
monotonia

The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.

monotonia

Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.

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Examples for "commonplace"
Examples for "commonplace"
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Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
Wired
2
But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
War by other means: an insider's account of the war on terror
3
Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace.
The new yorker
4
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace.
The Gay Cockade
5
The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
1
I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
Masked
2
In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic.
The new yorker
3
In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
4
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
The Irish Times
5
But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
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But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
Reuters
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Production values are thrifty but resourcefully deployed to accentuate the unglamorous environment.
Reuters
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For a generally unglamorous and rather functional product, primer elicits much conversation.
The Irish Times
4
In other words, it shows the unglamorous side of the jet-lag life.
Ebony
5
Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
Atonement
1
The film star was dressed for bed in a very unglamourous, extra-large man's T-shirt.
The next to die
2
At the stage door there were no crowds of groupies or fans - just forty unglamourous people waiting for backstage passes.
The new yorker
3
Some might say that Portadown were stuck in limbo last season, sucked into the unglamourous atmosphere of All-Ireland League Division Three.
The Irish Times

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; all work and no play"

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Uso de humdrum en inglés
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This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
The Irish Times
2
England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
The Guardian
3
In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
The Red Planet
4
Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum, honest labor.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
5
She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
The Drums of Jeopardy
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He had brought the splendour of an ideal into my humdrum life.
Parnassus on Wheels
7
To earn her living in a humdrum way she had no need.
Septimus
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Perhaps it was because his own day-to-day existence was placid and humdrum.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
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I'm tired of being a humdrum fairy year in and year out.
The Enchanted Island of Yew / Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered ...
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She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
Bertram Cope's Year
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No, I am afraid that Viking is too humdrum to be notable.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2.
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Her assemblages of apparently humdrum objects are catnip to galleries and collectors.
The Guardian
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Away from the eerie graveyard of the cliff, the island is humdrum.
The Guardian
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After all, we are but humdrum people, as the world goes now.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
15
Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
London's Underworld
16
Rapper Eve further slums down the track with a superfluous, humdrum rap.
Reuters
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monotonia
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Humdrum a través del tiempo
Humdrum por variante geográfica
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