monotony
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5.5
- noun
- /məˈnɑːtəni/
- Billy's good for breaking up the monotony around here.
- break the monotony
- escape the monotony
- avoid the monotony
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Watch on YouTubeShe talks about it involving routine, monotony, a certain sort of temporality.
- She talks about it involving routine, monotony, a certain sort of temporality.
- Just like just the monotony of it all.
- And these go on and on and on, and they take on a kind of rhythm or a monotony or a kind of visionary.
- It kind of it breaks up the monotony and it will create these new sounds that you may not be used to hearing.
- I would love to be a farmer, just the the monotony of growing things in the intricacy, right.
- I myself, in this hurried statement have misrepresented some splendor, some atrocity, perhaps to some mysterious monotony.
Examples
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You know, just to break the daily monotony.
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The office workers complained about the monotony of their repetitive tasks, which left them feeling unmotivated.
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"A little something to break up the monotony."
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Anything to break the monotony.
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Perhaps he'll rescue me from this monotony.
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We have several days to go on this voyage, and I can't stand monotony.
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Songs like this helped workers alleviate the monotony of their labor and momentarily escape their suffering.
Academic text (2005) -
The monotony of the desert awakened in the artist a heightened attention, a meditative state.
Academic text (2014) -
It's his heart, his passion, his desire to escape the monotony of everyday, to return to the fatal attraction of the marvelous world of motorcycle racing.
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And then Jumber's laughter would come again, brassily shattering the comfortable monotony of grayness and decay.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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7.0
Boring, hard work that you do again and again
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4.2
A lack of change or variety in daily life
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6.8
Feeling bored from doing the same thing for a long time
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3.7
Something that is not interesting or exciting
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4.1
A pleasant, polite style that feels too safe or insincere
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3.8
A state that makes you lose interest
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4.8
Repeated use of the same words or actions that makes something boring
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6.7
A boring state with little variety or excitement
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6.0
A feeling that a task is boring because it is long or always the same
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6.2
A dull, gloomy feeling that makes things seem not interesting
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5.1
A plain, dull appearance with no bright color or style
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9.3
A lack of energy and interest in speech or writing
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2.3
A daily pattern of plain unexciting activities like work and chores
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5.9
A lack of new ideas that makes something seem dull and familiar
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6.7
A state of being ordinary and not exciting
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9.6
Lack of flavor or interest that makes something dull
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8.4
A feeling that something is dull and boring
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5.6
A calm state with few or no important events
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5.6
A boring feeling caused by something that lasts a long time
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8.2
Being dull and without strong taste or interest
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4.7
Days or tasks happen the same way again and again
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9.1
The quality of being ordinary and not exciting
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Etymology
The word monotony comes from Greek parts mono- meaning 'one' and tonos meaning 'tone' or 'sound', and you can see the same root in the English word tone. It originally meant 'one tone', a single repeated sound, so monotony now means boring repetition or lack of variety.