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monotonously

adv

Etymology

From monotonous + -ly.

  1. derived from monotonus
  2. suffixed as monotonous — “monotone + ous”
  3. suffixed as monotonously — “monotonous + -ly”

Definitions

  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.
    • The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”

  2. In a droning manner, that does not change pitch.

    • The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.

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Derived

nonmonotonously

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA