Antonyms for rut
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ruht |
| Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒt |
Definition of rut
Origin :- "narrow track worn or cut in the ground," 1570s, probably from Middle English route (see route (n.)); though OED finds this "improbable." Metaphoric meaning "narrow, monotonous routine; habitual mode of behavior" first attested 1839.
- noun groove, indentation
- noun routine of daily life
- The business man gets into a rut, and often does not look beyond it.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- Rut they were all accompanied with an ineffable dignity, and an angelic purity.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- Once he thought Corinne hit a rut that could have been avoided.
- Extract from : « Weak on Square Roots » by Russell Burton
- You see, I came on the coach as far as Bayport and then we lost a wheel in a rut.
- Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Yet at least it served to raise our daily lives out of the rut of commonplace.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
- Prince Arthur could not lift it out of the rut, nor Grandolph either.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 » by Various
- However, you got the car out of the rut, so perhaps we can proceed on our way now.
- Extract from : « Tabitha's Vacation » by Ruth Alberta Brown
- Contentment—in a rut—that may be the best way of passing this life, after all.
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- The younger worker may think the older worker stodgy and in a rut.
- Extract from : « Have We No Rights? » by Mabel Williamson
- The horse stumbled in a rut, then swerved aside, and broke into a gallop.
- Extract from : « The Picture of Dorian Gray » by Oscar Wilde
Synonyms for rut
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