monotonously
English
Etymology
monotonous + -ly
Adverb
monotonously (comparative more monotonously, superlative most monotonously)
- In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
- She worked monotonously at the assembly line.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 97:
- Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance.
- In a droning manner, that does not change pitch.
- The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.
Related terms
Translations
in a manner that is tedious
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in a droning manner
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