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词汇 yawningly
释义 yawningly
adverb
uk /ˈjɔː.nɪŋ.li/ us /ˈjɑː.nɪŋ.li/

yawninglyadverb (BORING)


in a way that makes you yawn, for example because you are bored or tired:
Instead of having the work finished on time, he gave us a range of yawningly familiar excuses.
The work of doing data entry is long and yawningly tedious, so it helps to take breaks throughout the day.
We had to sit through a yawningly long introduction before the curtain went up.
While some people find football fun to watch, others find it yawningly dull.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tired and making tired
all in
anti-fatigue
at your worstidiom
be dead on your feetidiom
be fit/ready to dropidiom
finish something off
fit to dropidiom
fragile
frazzled
gassed
haggard
knackered
shell-shocked
sleep deprivation
sleep-deprived
sleepily
sleepiness
sleepy
strung out
zonked

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Boredom, tedium and boring things

yawninglyadverb (LARGE)


in a way that is very large, wide, or empty:
The gulf between the finished book and what the writer first imagined can look yawningly vast.
If you live alone, the weekends can sometimes feel yawningly empty.
Related word
yawning
The polling stations are yawningly empty, apart from a trickle of voters.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Empty
bare
barrenly
barrenness
blank
clear view
cleared
dead
emptily
emptiness
empty
flat
forlorn
hollow
lifeless
low-traffic
unfurnished
uninhabited
unobstructed
unoccupied
untenanted

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Wide and thick
Enormous

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