Dictionary Definition
monotonous adj
1 sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;
"the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: monotone, monotonic]
2 tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a
humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous
as the sea" [syn: humdrum]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /məˈnɑtn̩əs/
- SAMPA: /m@n"Atn=@s/
Adjective
- tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
- a droning that does not change pitch
Translations
tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
- Finnish: yksitoikkoinen, monotoninen
- Hungarian: egyhangú, monoton
- Russian: монотонный, однообразный, скучный
a droning that does not change pitch
- Finnish: yksitoikkoinen, monotoninen
- Hungarian: egyhangú, monoton
- Russian: монотонный, однозвучный, однотонный
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 单调 (dāndiào)
- ttbc Dutch: monotoon, eentonig
- ttbc French: monotone
- ttbc German: abwechslungslos, monoton
- ttbc Italian: monotono
- ttbc Japanese: 単調な (たんちょうな, tanchō na)
- ttbc Korean: 단조로운 (danjoroun)
- ttbc Portuguese: monótono
- ttbc Spanish: monótono
- ttbc Swedish: monoton
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
jog-trot, jogtrot,
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,
run-of-the-mill, running, 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