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Main Entry:
drone [drohn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is lazy
Synonyms: idler, leech, loafer, lounger, parasite, slug, sluggard, sponger
Antonyms: overachiever, workaholic
Main Entry: drone
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: making noise continuously
Synonyms: bombinate, buzz, chant, drawl, hum, intone, nasalize, purr, sound, strum, thrum, vibrate, whirr
Antonyms: be quiet, silence
Main Entry: bee
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: honey-making, stinging insect
Synonyms: bumblebee, drone, honey bee, killer bee, queen bee
Example Sentences
  • The one-bedroom unit can get hot, so he turns on a fan that will drone noisily throughout our talk.
  • He would drone (or meander) on and on in a steady (and steadily slow) monotone that threadened to put even disciples to sleep.
  • Lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipe's drowsy drone.
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Main Entry: buzz
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: droning sound
Synonyms: drone, fizz, fizzle, hiss, hum, murmur, purr, ring, ringing, sibilation, whir, whisper
Main Entry: buzz
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make droning sound
Synonyms: bombinate, bumble, drone, fizz, fizzle, hum, murmur, reverberate, ring, sibilate, whir, whisper, whiz
Main Entry: chant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sing simple song or song part
Synonyms: cantillate, carol, chorus, croon, descant, doxologize, drone, intone, recite, shout, tune, vocalize, warble
Main Entry: couch potato
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inactive person who watches a lot of television
Synonyms: TV viewer, TV-viewer, bystander, drone, goof-off, goof-off, idler, inactive person, laggard, lazy person, lazy-bones, loafer, lotuseater, lounger, observer, slouch, sluggard, sofa spud, spectator, spud, televiewer, televiewer, television viewer, video-gazer, viewer
Main Entry: drawl
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lengthen, draw out
Synonyms: chant, drag out, drone, extend, intone, nasalize, prolong, pronounce slowly, protract, utter
Antonyms: clip, shorten
Main Entry: droid
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: robot
Synonyms: android, clone, cyborg, drone
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