Meaning of MONOTONOUS
| Pronunciation: | | mu'nâtnus
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- [adj] tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
- [adj] sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
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| | Synonyms: | | dull, humdrum, monotone, monotonic, unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mo*not"o*nous\, a. [Gr. ?; mo`nos alone, single + ?
tone. See {Tone}.]
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull
uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or
variety; wearisome. -- {Mo*not"o*nous*ly}, adv. --
{Mo*not"o*nous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | alliterating, alliterative, articulated, assonant, banal, banausic, belabored, blah, boring, broken-record, catenated, ceaseless, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, colorless, commonplace, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dim, dingdong, direct, drab, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, endless, everlasting, everyday, featureless, gapless, gray, harping, ho-hum, humdrum, immediate, incessant, interminable, invariable, jingle-jangle, jogtrot, jog-trot, joined, jointless, labored, linked, long-winded, mechanical, monotone, monotonic, never-ending, nonstop, ordinary, pedestrian, perennial, periodic, poky, prolix, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, rhymed, rhyming, round-the-clock, routine, running, run-of-the-mill, same, samely, seamless, serried, singsong, sleep-inducing, smooth, soporific, stable, steady, stodgy, straight, tedious, tiresome, tiring, treadmill, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uneventful, unexciting, uniform, uninteresting, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying |
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