Monotonous

English

Adjective

Monotonous (comparative more Monotonous, superlative most Monotonous)

1. having an unvarying tone or pitch
2. tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety

Related terms

• monotone
• monotony

Synonyms

• monotonic

Adverbs for Monotonous

drearily; tediously; dreadfully; boresomely; endlessly; dismally; cheerfully; dully; intolerably; wearily; unbearably; unendurably; garrulously; ponderously; uninterestingly; repetitiously; unvaryingly; vapidly; irksomely; flatly; drowsily; droningly; prosily.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

monotone

Pronunciation

• enPR: mə-nŏt'n-əs, IPA: /məˈnɑtn̩əs/, SAMPA: /m@n"Atn%@s/

Translations

having an unvarying tone or pitch

Czech: monotónní (cs) Danish: enstonig (da), monoton (da) Dutch: monotoon, eentonig Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi) German: monoton (de) Greek: μονότονος (el)

Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu) Italian: monocorde (it) Russian: монотонный (ru) (monotónnyj), однозвучный (ru) (odnozvúčnyj), однотонный (ru) (odnotónnyj) Swedish: entonig (sv)

tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety

Czech: monotónní (cs) Danish: ensformig (da), monoton (da) Dutch: monotoon, eentonig, saai Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi) Greek: μονότονος (el), ανιαρός (el)

Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu) Italian: monotono (it) Russian: монотонный (ru) (monotónnyj), однообразный (ru) (odnoobráznyj), скучный (ru) (skúšnyj)

The translations below need to be checked.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: ممل (mumíl) Mandarin: 单调 (dāndiào) French: monotone, ennuyeux German: abwechslungslos, monoton Greek: μονότονος (monótonos)

Japanese: 単調な (たんちょうな, tanchō na) Latin: monotonus Korean: 단조로운 (danjoroun) Portuguese: monótono Spanish: monótono Swedish: monoton