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yawn
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open mouth wide, usually sign of |
| Synonyms: | divide, doze, drowse, expand, fatigue catch flies, gap, gape, give, nap, part, sleep, snooze, spread, yaw, yawp |
| Main Entry: | boredom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinterest; weariness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, detachment, disgust, distaste, doldrums, dullness, ennui, fatigue, flatness, incuriosity, indifference, irksomeness, jadedness, lack of interest, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, monotony, pococurantism, sameness, taedium vitae, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unconcern, world-weariness, yawn |
| Antonyms: | excitement, interest, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | abysm, alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, clough, clove, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, preterition, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | doldrums |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
| Synonyms: | apathy, black mood, blahs, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, disinterest, dismals, downer, dullness, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, inactivity, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, mopes, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn |
| Antonyms: | elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneventful |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, apathetic, blah, boring, dead, depressed, draggy, even, falling off, flat, inactive, inert, languid, lifeless, listless, monotonous, placid, quiet, regular, routine, sitting tight, slack, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, still, stolid, tight, torpid, unexciting, unresponsive, usual, without incident, yawn |
| Antonyms: | active, eventful, exciting, interesting, lively |
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
| Synonyms: | apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, satiety, spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn |
| Antonyms: | energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | gape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be wide open |
| Synonyms: | cleave, crack, dehisce, divide, frondesce, gap, part, split, yaw, yawn |
| Antonyms: | close |
| Main Entry: | open |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clear, expose; spread |
| Synonyms: | bare, break in, break out, broach, burst, bust in, come apart, crack, disclose, display, disrupt, expand, fissure, free, gap, gape, hole, jimmy, kick in, lacerate, lance, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pop, puncture, release, reveal, rupture, separate, sever, slit, slot, split, tap, throw wide, unbar, unblock, unbolt, unclose, unclothe, uncork, uncover, undo, unfasten, unfold, unfurl, unlatch, unlock, unroll, unseal, unshut, unstop, untie, unwrap, vent, ventilate, yawn, yawp |
| Antonyms: | block, bury, cover, exclude, hide, hinder, shut |
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
| Synonyms: | actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of- fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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