Monotonous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monotonous \Mo*not"o*nous\, a. [Gr. ?; mo`nos alone, single + ?
     tone. See {Tone}.]
     Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull
     uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or
     variety; wearisome. -- {Mo*not"o*nous*ly}, adv. --
     {Mo*not"o*nous*ness}, n.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "monotonous":
     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