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[ adjective ] sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Examples "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)It became so monotonous as to seem a part of the quietness . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition , as if a phonograph_needle were stuck in one groove ; only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom , common to our culture , which he has evidently heard , over_and_over , from a parent until he experiences it as part of him . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Synonyms Examples "a humdrum existence all work and no play" "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)To them he could have been the broken bell in the church_tower which rang before and after Mass , and at noon , and at six each evening - its tone , repetitive , monotonous , never breaking the boredom of the streets . Related terms |
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