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Definition of Monotonous
1. Adjective. Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. "Nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
2. Adjective. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. "The owl's faint monotonous hooting"
Similar to: Unmodulated
Derivative terms: Flatness, Monotone, Monotone, Monotone
Definition of Monotonous
1. a. Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
Definition of Monotonous
1. Adjective. having an unvarying tone or pitch ¹
2. Adjective. tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monotonous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotonous
Literary usage of Monotonous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"HOW THE ASPECT OF SOCIETY IN THE UNITED STATES IS AT ONCE EXCITED AND monotonous.
IT would seem that nothing could be more adapted to stimulate and to feed ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"HOW THE ASPECT OF SOCIETY IN THE UNITED STATES IS AT ONCE EXCITED AND monotonous.
IT would seem that nothing could be more adapted to stimulate and to feed ..."
3. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1903)
"OUT of the North the train thundered, and we woke to aee the crimson soil of
Georgia stretching away bare and monotonous right and left. ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"... the mass of mankind in civilized societies, and that which brings the largest
product, is mainly of the continuous, monotonous, and irksome kind. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The truth seems to be, that faultless good taste is almost as rare in France as
in England, but that French bad taste is conventional and monotonous, ..."
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