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/mənˈɒtənəs/
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[ US /məˈnɑtənəs/ ]
[ US /məˈnɑtənəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
the owl's faint monotonous hooting -
tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
a humdrum existence; all work and no play
nothing is so monotonous as the sea
How To Use monotonous In A Sentence
- The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
- Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
- Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous drone, and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
- Perhaps worse still was the monotonous, mechanical regularity imposed on the worker by the factory system. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
- The monotonous stretches of this concert package make it difficult to feel anything about him at all.
- It is only too true that alcoholism, cocainism, and other supposed means of getting beyond a monotonous daily life are becoming increasingly prevalent among women.
- The monotonous words sounded fake and insincere, as if they were predetermined and he was only reciting the memorized lines in some sort of play.
- Guess I might as well light some fire to that fat ass, he mused, like whipping her buttocks was a monotonous task. Stealing Candy
- For here was a trailing line of jog-trotting dusky shapes, some crouching on dwarf ponies half their size, some trailing lances, lodge-poles, rifles, women and children after them, all moving with a monotonous rhythmic motion as marked as the military precision of the other cavalcade, and always on a parallel line with it. Tales of Trail and Town
- I am privileged to have escaped the monotonous toil of endless physical labour and to have experienced a soft life in which I have been able to indulge my passion for history.