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UK
/mənˈɒtəni/
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[ US /məˈnɑtəni/ ]
[ US /məˈnɑtəni/ ]
NOUN
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the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety
he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work
he hated the sameness of the food the college served
he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners - constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
How To Use monotony In A Sentence
- There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine.
- [14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety. Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
- He stood there, as calm as ever, wearing only his neat black trousers and his scuffed boots, a few tendrils of plum-coloured hair tracing a colourful pattern against the smooth monotony of his skin.
- And the answer came: she was like a break in the monotony, like a resident jester.
- _Coeteris paribus_ -- all the other usual conditions being observed, such as silence, the fixed gaze, monotony of attention -- let the galvanic disk be put aside, and in its place let a sixpence or a fourpenny-piece be employed, or indeed any similar small object on which the eyes of the patient must remain fixed for the usual space of time, and we will promise that the experiments thus made shall be equally successful with those in which the so-called galvanic disk is employed. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
- Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
- That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
- In fact, it's likely they may be tired and dreading the monotony of a step routine.
- This year's card would relieve the monotony.
- This was evident, too, in the terrible monotony of the subjects studied and the very limited variety of the sources used.