| 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: | 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: | 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: | hum |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | buzz, vibrate |
Synonyms: |
bombilate, bombinate, bum, bumble, croon, drone, moan, mumble, murmur, purr, rustle, sing, sing low, sound, strum, throb, thrum, trill, warble, whir, whisper, zoom |
| Main Entry: | idleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
Antonyms: |
action, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
Synonyms: |
banausic, blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, droning, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, flat as pancake, ho-hum, humdrum*, monotone, nothing, pedestrian, plodding, prosaic, puts one to sleep, recurrent, reiterated, repetitious, repetitive, samely, sing-song, soporific, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninflected, uninteresting, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying |
Antonyms: |
changing, ever-changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile |
| Main Entry: | murmur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make low, continuous sound |
Synonyms: |
babble, burble, buzz, drip, drone, flow, growl, gurgle, hum, meander, moan, mumble, mutter, purl, purr, ripple, rumble, stage-whisper, stammer, stutter, susurrate, tinkle, trickle, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper |
Antonyms: |
speak clearly |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
Synonyms: |
articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak |
Antonyms: |
listen |
| Main Entry: | whine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | complain, cry |
Synonyms: |
bellyache, carp, drone, fuss, gripe, grouse, grumble, howl, kick, mewl, moan, murmur, pule, repine, snivel, sob, wail, whimper, yowl |