Synonyms for Monotonous

Synonyms for "monotonous" (183 found)

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Closest matches (37)

Adjective(6 words)

flat humdrum blander blandest boring colorless

alliterating alliterative arid articulated assonant banal banausic belabored blah boring broken-record catenated ceaseless chanting chiming cliche-ridden colorless commonplace concatenated connected

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constant continual continued continuing continuous cyclic cyclical dead

Noun(3 words)

chugging clanking deadening

Strong matches (55)

dim dingdong direct drab drearisome dreary dry dryasdust dull dusty endless even everlasting everyday featureless gapless gray grey harping heavy

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ho-hum humdrum immediate incessant interminable invariable jingle-janglejog trotjog-trot jogtrot joined jointless labored linkedlong windedlong-winded measured mechanical monotone

Adjective(11 words)

drab drabber dreariest dreary dull dullestemotional stagnationflat shapeinsipid monotonemonotone speaking

Verb(2 words)

droned fatiguing

Noun(3 words)

droning drudgingmonotone drill

Related words (91)

Adjective(24 words)

monotone speechmonotonicmundane ideanonliving taskplainpredictable patternrepetitive motionrepetitive noiserepetitive patternsrepetitive schedulerepetitive tasksrepetitive writingroutine proceduresroutine workstolid tedioustedious assignmentunenrgetic uniformuninspired repetition

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uninviting unvaried unvarying vapid

monotonicnever endingnever-ending nonstop ordinary pedestrian perennial periodic plodding poky prolix prosaic recurrent repetitious repetitive rhymed rhyminground-the-clockroutinerun-of-the-mill

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Determiner(1 words)

more repeating-pattern sequence

Noun(5 words)

most repetitiveploddingroutine activitiesroutine boredomroutine problem

Verb(1 words)

trudging

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

appearance qualitytone quality

More specific

6 entries

drab decordreary deliveryhumdrum routinemonochrome palettemonotone voicetiresome lecture

Collocations

6 entries

monotonous daymonotonous lecturemonotonous patternmonotonous routinemonotonous taskmonotonous voice

Inflections

2 entries

more monotonousmost monotonous

Derivations

2 entries

monotonously monotony

similar

2 entries

dull unmodulated

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Listening practice tends to be monotonous.

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This story is rather monotonous.

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I am tired of my monotonous life.

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I'm tired of the monotonous life.

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