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monotonous

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mo·not·o·nous  (m-ntn-s)
adj.
1. Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone.
2. Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. See Synonyms at boring.

[From Greek monotonos : mono-, mono- + tonos, tone; see tone.]

mo·noto·nous·ly adv.
mo·noto·nous·ness n.

monotonous
Adjective
tedious because of lack of variety
monotonously adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.monotonousmonotonous - tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
2.monotonous - sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
unmodulated - characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume; "he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria"

monotonous
adjective 1. tedious, boring, dull, repetitive, uniform, all the same, plodding, tiresome, humdrum, unchanging, colourless, mind-numbing, soporific, ho-hum (informal) repetitious, wearisome, samey (informal) unvaried << OPPOSITE interesting
adjective 2. toneless, flat, uniform, droning, unchanging, uninflected << OPPOSITE animated
Translations
Spanish monotonous [məˈnɔtənəs] adjmonótono
French monotonous [məˈnɔtənəs] adjmonotone
German monotonous [məˈnɔtənəs] adjmonoton, eintönig
Italian monotonous [məˈnɔtənəs] adjmonotono/a

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This influence of habit was necessarily strong in a man whose life was so monotonous as Marner's-- who saw no new people and heard of no new events to keep alive in him the idea of the unexpected and the changeful; and it explains simply enough, why his mind could be at ease, though he had left his house and his treasure more defenceless than usual.
May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last--you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
 
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