adjective
definition
Having an unvarying tone or pitch.
definition
Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
Examples of monotonous in a Sentence
Jonny's voice was coldly monotonous but soft.
The notes of the blackbird are rich and full, but monotonous as compared with those of the song-thrush.
As professional story-tellers many Moors are remarkable, but the national music is monotonous and not very harmonious.
She shivered, sensing something truly evil in his monotonous voice and cold hands.
Between the Lot and the Aveyron is a belt of causses or monotonous limestone table-lands, broken here and there by profound and beautiful gorges - a type of scenery characteristic of Aveyron.
The story of the Hungarian wars is a monotonous record of forays, of assistance given at times to the Babenbergs by the forces of the Empire, and ending in the gradual eastward advance of Austria.
They laid no claim to literary skill; their style was monotonous and soon became wearisome.
His chief defects are a somewhat pretentious and at the same time monotonous style, and a want of sympathy and intensity.
In the Eastern Alps the political history is almost monotonous, for it relates simply to the advance or retreat of the house of Habsburg, which still holds all but the whole of the northern portion (the exception is the small bit in the north-west that belongs to Bavaria) of that region.
They serve admirably to break the sombre and monotonous aspect of the Australian vegetation.
Parades can be fun, but too much parading can make festivity look monotonous.
In general the main elevations of the two ranges form pairs lying opposite one another; the forms of both ranges are monotonous, but the colouring is splendid, especially when viewed from a distance; when seen close at hand only a few valleys with perennial streams offer pictures of landscape beauty, their rich green contrasting pleasantly with the bare brown and yellow mountain sides.
The best critics admitted that his diction was too monotonous, too obviously artificial, and now and then turgid even to absurdity.
When compared with such philosophic writing as Hume's, Diderot's, Berkeley's, then Comte's manner is heavy, laboured, monotonous, without relief and without light.
The scenery is generally monotonous; even the mountainous districts rarely show striking features 1 Nos.
His prose, though not nearly so uniformly monotonous or polysyllabic as the parodists would have us believe, was at one time greatly overpraised.
The plateau, known as the Ogaden plateau, everywhere presents the same monotonous aspect of a boundless steppe clothed with a scanty vegetation of scrubby plants and herbaceous growths.
The language of Hirtius is good, but his style is monotonous and lacks vigour.
The metre is monotonous and easily ridiculed, but it suits the subject, and the poem is very popular.
The first begins beyond the mud-flats and reed-beds which line the water's edge, and is a vast monotonous lowland, sloping so gently as to seem almost level.
Although the mountains present bold and picturesque outlines on their outward faces, the general aspect of the country north of the coast-lands, except in its south-eastern corner, is bare and monotonous.
East of the Cascades the valleys are usually treeless, save for a few willows and cottonwoods in the vicinity of streams. Over the greater part of this region the sage-brush is the most common plant, and by its ubiquity it imparts to the landscape the monotonous greyish tint so characteristic of the arid regions of the western United States.
He had nothing but a wide expanse of black ministerial cloth, unrelieved except by an equally monotonous array of white cravats.
You certainly know when you are hit but the rotor sound gets a bit monotonous after a while.
This food is quite monotonous although you add spices to most of the food to get some variety.
Food is usually good, although sometimes a little monotonous, but the picnic lunches are very good and most drinks are included.
Just seems to get more monotonous with each listen.
He said, " This thing is growing monotonous!
If history teaches anything, it teaches this, and with monotonous repetition.
Using a dull, monotonous voice will not impress the audience and can make the topic sound uninteresting.
These manifestations of the divine spirit again cannot be traced and understood by reducing (as Hegel did) the growth of the human mind in the individual, in society and in history to the monotonous rhythm of a speculative schematism; the essence and worth which is in them reveals itself only to the student of detail, for reality is larger and wider than philosophy; the problem, "how the one can be many," is only solved for us in the numberless examples in life and experience which surround us, for which we must retain a lifelong interest and which constitute the true field of all useful human work.
A simple refrain of a childish song or the monotonous chaunt of the ploughman touched a hidden chord and thrilled her to tears.
Because there is always a human element, the routine surgeries could get monotonous.
The four volumes of the Meditations, the Harmonies and the Recueillements, which contained the prime of his verse, are perhaps the most monotonous reading to be found anywhere in work of equal bulk by a poet of equal talent.
The domestic architecture of Verona cannot thus be now fairly estimated, and seems monotonous, heavy and uninteresting.
His diction is pure, his style correct, his versification smooth though monotonous.
The vegetation of the meadow-lands is monotonous.
The modern streets are spacious, and the houses well-built though monotonous.
A punching ball or rowing machine is even better as being less monotonous.
Reitor, depict country life and scenery with loving sympathy, and hold the reader by the charm of the characters, but Diniz is a rather subjective monotonous writer who lacks the power to analyse, and he is no psychologist.
All the main thoroughfares are spacious, and in two or three instances even imposing, but most of the residential part consists of monotonous stuccoed terraces.
When the grammar lessons were becoming too monotonous I would retreat to the questions and unknowns of global politics.
The wealth and luxury of successive generations, the monotonous routine of life, the separation of the educated class from the higher work of the world, have produced their enervating and paralysing effect on the mainsprings of poetic and imaginative feeling.
His style is clear, but monotonous and inelegant.
His style is correct, lucid and virile, but generally nothing more, and his endeavour to use as far as possible only words of Teutonic origin limited his vocabulary and makes his sentences somewhat monotonous.
The music, vocal and instrumental, is generally of little compass, and in the minor key; it is therefore plaintive, and strikes a European ear as somewhat monotonous, though often possessing a simple beauty, and the charm of antiquity, for there is little doubt that the favorite airs have been handed down from remote ages.
Too often the brown, barren, sun-scorched ridges are obscured in the yellow dust haze which drifts upwards from the plains; too often the whole perspective of hill and vale is blotted out in the grey mists that sweep in soft, resistless columns against these southern slopes, to be condensed and precipitated in ceaseless, monotonous rainfall.
Before the guns an artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing.
The perk with this pet is that it can break up a monotonous day with a bit of fun.
Perfect while throwing horseshoes on the beach or four wheeling in a jeep excursion, cutoff shorts can also be worn for monotonous household chores, such as kickback car washing Saturday or lawn mowing Sunday.