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monotonously

monotonously adverb: in a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

Adverb

monotonously (comparative more monotonously, superlative most monotonously)

  1. In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
    • She worked monotonously at the assembly line.
    • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 97
  2. In a droning manner, that does not change pitch.
    • The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.

Forms of monotonously

comparativemore monotonously
superlativemost monotonously

Origin of monotonously

From monotonous + -ly.

Words formed from monotonously

Questions about monotonously

What does monotonously mean?
Monotonously means in a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
What part of speech is monotonously?
Monotonously is an adverb.

Words near monotonously in the dictionary

  1. monotonize
  2. monotonized
  3. monotonizes
  4. monotonizing
  5. monotonous
  6. monotonously
  7. monotonousness
  8. monotony
  9. monotopic
  10. monotopically
  11. monotosylation

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