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单词 unglamorous
释义
unglamorous
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈɡlæm.ər.əs/us
/ʌnˈɡlæm.ə.əs/
notglamorous(=especiallyattractiveandexciting):
无趣的，乏味的；没有吸引力的
unglamorouswork/surroundings乏味的工作／沉闷的环境
Synonyms
commonplace
humdrum
prosaicformal
Opposite
glamorous
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • plug-ugly
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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(Definition ofunglamorousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunglamorous

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By comparison, monasteries, while sufficiently disliked, wereunglamorousand little understood.
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Meanwhile, crouching in their circle of wagons down in the valley we have theunglamorous, rationalistic individualists.
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In reality, it is from backstage, a veryunglamorousand even chaotic world with virtually no relation to the illusion the audience sees onstage.
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However, this paper has argued that we would perhaps do better to see the future as an equally flawed andunglamorousversion of the present.
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But she neglected to mention theunglamorousreality of the female share of technological society: women were bound to household tasks just as much as they had been before.
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This may sound ratherunglamorousand certainly very humdrum.
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Some members felt that that was somewhatunglamorousand chose to rename it "the convention".
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Our work is oftenunglamorous, it can be stressful and not particularly spectacular, but our goals are great, and so much is expected of us.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Yes, heart disease and cancer matter, but if funding for them will come from a fixed overall cake, will theunglamorousbe left behind?
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They are usually highlyunglamorousthey are a nuisance rather than a menace they are pathetic and riotously unsuccessful.
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It is a long, difficult andunglamorousroad, but one from which there can be no turning back.
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Of course, too, this is theunglamorousside of public expenditure management, requiring enormous, but often unrecognised, effort.
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What we need is quiteunglamorousand it is not an easy or ready answer.
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It is dirty andunglamorouswork, and there will not be a lot of money in it for them.
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Partly because of the lack of controversy surrounding the subject, the issue has become ratherunglamorous.
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