yawner
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈjɔːnər/
- Informal
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aburrimiento
- By what accounts I've seen so far, it's a yawner—no substantive difference in hardware, not a lot being bragged about in OS improvements.
- a big yawner
Examples
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I doubt many people who have bothered to slog through all of the 27 gadzillion pages of this yawner actually disagree so violently with the philosophy of Objectivism, or they would never have had the gumption to finish this book.
Blog text (32) -
Just another yawner event, I guess.
Blog text (32) -
Okay, so by most comments in the biz, the iPhone 5 was a nice improvement, but largely a yawner.
Blog text (9) -
Once everyone realized the class war was over and it was just going to be five-year plans from here on in, they knew what a yawner they'd created and flushed it for something with more pizzazz.
Fiction book (2001) -
The lecture turned out to be a complete yawner, and I struggled to stay awake.
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Many viewers found the movie to be a yawner due to its predictable plot.
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His presentation was such a yawner that the audience lost interest within minutes.
Synonyms
32
4.2
A person who talks too much about dull topics and makes others feel tired or not interested
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8.6
An event that is very boring and makes people sleepy
Antonyms
How Interesting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word yawner also means 'something very boring' because when people are bored they often yawn, which means 'to open the mouth wide', so a yawner is a thing that makes you feel sleepy or uninterested.