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monotonous
adjective
1 monotonous
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety:
— Nothing is so monotonous as the sea.
synonym: humdrum.
Roget 141:
stable
etc.
150;
persisting
etc.
v.;
permanent;
established;
unchanged
etc.
(change)
etc.
140;
renewed;
intact,
inviolate;
persistent;
monotonous,
uncheckered†;
unfailing.
undestroyed,
unrepealed,
unsuppressed†;
conservative,
qualis ab incepto [Lat.];
prescriptive
etc.
(old)
124;
stationary
etc.
265.
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Roget 843:
dull,
dull as ditch water;
unentertaining,
uninteresting,
flat,
dry as dust;
unfunny,
unlively†,
logy [U.S.];
unimaginative;
insulse†;
dry as dust;
prosy,
prosing,
prosaic;
matter of fact,
commonplace,
pedestrian,
pointless;
weary stale flat and unprofitable"
[Hamlet].
stupid,
slow,
flat,
insipid,
vapid,
humdrum,
monotonous;
melancholic
etc.
837;
stolid
etc.
499;
plodding.
boring,
tiresome,
tedious
etc.
841.
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Roget 841:
wearying
etc.
v.;
wearing;
wearisome,
tiresome,
irksome;
uninteresting,
stupid,
bald,
devoid of interest,
dry,
monotonous,
dull,
arid,
tedious,
humdrum,
mortal,
flat;
prosy,
prosing;
slow,
soporific,
somniferous.
disgusting
etc.
v.;
unenjoyed†.
weary,
tired
etc.
v.;
drowsy
etc.
(sleepy)
683;
uninterested,
flagging,
used up,
worn out,
blase,
life-weary,
weary of life;
sick of.
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Roget 576:
plain,
simple;
unornamented,
unadorned,
unvarnished;
homely,
homespun;
neat;
severe,
chaste,
pure,
Saxon;
commonplace,
matter-of-fact,
natural,
prosaic.
dry,
unvaried,
monotonous
etc.
575.
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Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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Roget 104:
repeated
etc.
v.;
repetitional†,
repetitionary†;
recurrent,
recurring;
ever recurring,
thick coming;
frequent,
incessant;
redundant,
pleonastic.
monotonous,
harping,
iterative,
recursive [Comp.],
unvaried;
mocking,
chiming;
retold;
aforesaid,
aforenamed†;
above-mentioned,
above-said;
habitual
etc.
613;
another.
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Roget 27:
equal,
even,
level,
monotonous,
coequal,
symmetrical,
coordinate;
on a par with,
on a level with,
on a footing with;
up to the mark;
equiparant†.
equivalent,
tantamount;
indistinguishable;
quits;
homologous;
synonymous
etc.
522;
resolvable into,
convertible,
much at one,
as broad as long,
neither more nor less. ;
much the same as,
the same thing as,
as good as;
all one,
all the same;
equipollent,
equiponderant†,
equiponderous†,
equibalanced†;
equalized
etc.
v.;
drawn;
half and half;
isochronal,
isochronous isoperimetric†,
isoperimetrical†;
isobath [Ocean.],
isobathic [Ocean.].
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Roget 16:
uniform;
homogeneous,
homologous;
of a piece [Fr.],
consistent,
connatural†;
monotonous,
even,
invariable;
regular,
unchanged,
undeviating,
unvaried,
unvarying.
unsegmented.
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Roget 407:
rolling
etc.
v.;
monotonous
etc.
(repeated)
104;
like a bee in a bottle.
Polish: monotonny, monotoniczny, jednostajny
2 monotonous
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch:
— The owl's faint monotonous hooting.
synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic.
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