monotonous
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5.3
- adjective
- /məˈnɑːtənəs/
:
monótono
- The lecture was so monotonous that many students struggled to stay awake.
- monotonous life
- monotonous work
- become monotonous
It's boring, it's monotonous, it's hard, but that's what success looks like.
- It's boring, it's monotonous, it's hard, but that's what success looks like.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, certainly the work could get monotonous.
- No, he's just found passion in his life and suddenly his day-to-day life that was monotonous before suddenly is vibrant.
- And until you can be happy doing that stuff, I think it's it, it will become monotonous.
- And without that change in context, their feeling was that they were in one long monotonous event.
- Over and over in this monotonous cycle of pain and not wanting to and having the ability to do it.
- And they, they keep coming up in story after story after story in, in these mythos stories, which does make them kind of monotonous.
- Monotonous is monotonous and monotonous is boring, which is why in board meetings, yeah.
- When it became that big and it was like monotonous, I was like, oh, shit, this is big.
Examples
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On the 15th consecutive night of our monotonous bean diet, my little brother was asked to say grace.
Fiction book (1997) -
I was a bank clerk once... my existence a monotonous rhythm.
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Do you find my company monotonous?
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But the view got monotonous.
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We're so used to it, it's getting monotonous.
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The food is getting monotonous.
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No, wait, please, my days are so lonely and monotonous.
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Russell explains that he had never enjoyed the monotonous physical work he had done as a butcher.
Academic text (1993) -
Before long, monotonous subdivisions would be everywhere, and every house would be like every other.
Academic text (2009) -
This is becoming monotonous.
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
37
4.1
Making you bored, annoyed, or mentally tired
31
2.8
A thing that has no strong character and few interesting features
30
6.1
Dull and showing little energy
23
4.2
Not bright or colorful and not lively
21
7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
19
3.6
Without energy or interest and making people feel bored
17
7.1
Not having special or interesting features so it does not stand out
14
6.5
So boring that you stop paying attention
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
7
3.5
Not interesting or exciting
6
5.1
Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way
5
8.1
Not interesting and making you feel bored
3
3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
7.0
Makes you feel tired or bored because it is repetitive
1
6.9
Making something feel very dull and boring
1
9.9
Full of old or obvious ideas that seem important
Not original, dull and trying to seem important
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Causes people to lose interest because it is dull
Very boring and hard to pay attention to
Not causing strong feelings or interest
Boring and not interesting to think about or feel
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word monotonous comes from the parts mono- 'one' and tone 'sound', like 'one sound'. So when things repeat in the same way again and again, they feel monotonous and boring.