| Main Entry: | treadmill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grind |
Synonyms: |
chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail |
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tedious job |
Synonyms: |
chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail, treadmill |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
Synonyms: |
arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden-variety, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, uninteresting, unvaried, vanilla, wearisome, white-bread |
Antonyms: |
busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
| 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: | routine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habitual activity |
Synonyms: |
act, beaten path, bit, channels, custom, cycle, daily grind, drill, formula, grind*, groove*, habit, line, method, order, pace, pattern, piece, practice, procedure, program, rat race, rote, round, rut, schtick, spiel*, system, tack, technique, treadmill, usage, way, wont |
Antonyms: |
break, excitement, unusual |
| Main Entry: | rut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine of daily life |
Synonyms: |
circle, circuit, course, custom, daily grind, dead end, grind*, groove, habit, humdrum*, pace, pattern, performance, practice, procedure, rote, round, system, treadmill, usage, wont |
Antonyms: |
break, difference |
| Main Entry: | uniform |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike |
Synonyms: |
agnate, akin, analogous, comparable, consistent, consonant, correspondent, ditto*, double, equal, identical, like, mated, monotonous, parallel, same, same difference, selfsame, similar, treadmill, undifferentiated, unvaried |
Antonyms: |
deviating, different, dissimilar, divergent, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | rat race |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | competition in life |
Synonyms: |
battle of life, daily grind, hamster cage, survival of the fittest, treadmill, vicious circle |
| Main Entry: | daily grind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everyday routine |
Synonyms: |
grind, nine-to-five, squirrel cage, treadmill, working day |