Explore Monotonous through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like humdrum or dull. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Monotonous meaning
- Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
- Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.
Using Monotonous
- The main meaning on this page is: Having an unvarying pitch or tone. | Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.
- Useful related words include: humdrum, dull, flat, monotone.
- In the example corpus, monotonous often appears in combinations such as: monotonous and, and monotonous, be monotonous.
Context around Monotonous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monotonous
- In this selection, "monotonous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, became, seems, driving, design, highways and life stand out and add context to how "monotonous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a soft monotonous voice and and again amid monotonous and boring. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monotonous" sits close to words such as abingdon, abrahams and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monotonous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Yes, we were doing very repetitive, monotonous small tasks, so you could really attend. (14 words)
Like any other activity, job searching can become monotonous if you don’t mix things up. (16 words)
These simple interactions inject a touch of humanity into what can often feel like monotonous transactions. (16 words)
Such plenary lectures are an honour, and the theme of hospitality also helped me see that the single voice of a lecture, which can be monotonous at the best of times, needed interrupting by the many voices and languages of the world. (42 words)
As soon as one begins watching the short, its monotonous and silent nature could spark interest, prompting a question as to why such choices were made when the depicted images seem quite ordinary. (33 words)
However, a lesser-known symptom of Parkinson's is a soft, monotonous voice, and research suggests that these vocal symptoms often appear much earlier, sometimes decades before movement-related issues. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
And the risotto is faultless (right chew, on-point seasoning) but it, too, paled in comparison to other dishes as the bites progressively became monotonous.
Everything about Q seems monotonous and ordinary, except for the fact that he has a collection of dolls … as a grown man.
Furthermore, insufficient player differentiation weakens the microscopic equilibrium within the ecosystem, causing many games to have a monotonous design that does not cater to all user profiles.
It is the outcome of tiredness among the driver, long hours of driving, monotonous highways, drowsiness with inattentive brain, etc.
It’s for those who want technology to be fun once again amid monotonous and boring devices.
Like any other activity, job searching can become monotonous if you don’t mix things up.
No. The war film’s emotional landscape is monotonous, while “Puss in Boots” has a whole palette of emotion that aids its impact.
Taking myself out of my monotonous life, I knew deep inside this is what my soul craved.
The movie humorously harkens back to other classics in Fincher's catalog, most notably hilarious monotonous narration and criticism of consumerism.
These simple interactions inject a touch of humanity into what can often feel like monotonous transactions.
This is a rather difficult task, since among many monotonous games it is necessary to look for a high-quality project.
When it comes to marriage, nothing is boring or monotonous when it comes tocaptain Siya Kolisi and his wife, Rachel.
While cooking food one at a time over and over again can get slightly monotonous after a point, Link's enthusiasm takes the edge off the boring process somewhat.
Yes, we were doing very repetitive, monotonous small tasks, so you could really attend.
As soon as one begins watching the short, its monotonous and silent nature could spark interest, prompting a question as to why such choices were made when the depicted images seem quite ordinary.
Between its many weapons, gear items, crafting materials, and other accessories, it makes the process of going through your inventory monotonous, to say the least.
However, a lesser-known symptom of Parkinson's is a soft, monotonous voice, and research suggests that these vocal symptoms often appear much earlier, sometimes decades before movement-related issues.
Rather than the drab, monotonous voiceover you may expect from two summarizing data, the cadence and vocal performances of NotebookLM’s synthetic podcasters sound far less stilted.
Such plenary lectures are an honour, and the theme of hospitality also helped me see that the single voice of a lecture, which can be monotonous at the best of times, needed interrupting by the many voices and languages of the world.
They are content with a monotonous diplomatic theatrical performance of statements of condemnation and warning without taking any real steps on the ground.
Common combinations with monotonous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- monotonous and 8×
- and monotonous 5×
- be monotonous 4×
- more monotonous 3×
- became monotonous 2×
- or monotonous 2×
- monotonous when 2×
- monotonous after 2×
- monotonous to 2×
- monotonous at 2×