The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
Синонимы
Examples for "monotony "
Examples for "monotony "
1 Curiosity leads to engagement, which leads to new experiences, which destroys monotony .
2 The monotony of the pageant was broken; something new was announcing itself.
3 Certain is the vengeance of the young upon monotony ; nothing more certain.
4 The excitement was a pleasant break in the monotony of school life.
5 In the brown monotony of the street it stood out splendid, conspicuous.
1 Normalcy reassured; sameness was comfortable; to be average meant to be secure.
2 If in his rural designs there is sameness and tameness; if often
3 Three episodes sent to reviewers reveal a sameness from week to week.
4 Numerous natural clearings or prairies relieve the sameness of the luxuriant forests.
5 But she could not eat; the sameness of the food disgusted her.
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; all work and no play"
1 This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
2 England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
3 In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
4 Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum , honest labor.
5 She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
6 He had brought the splendour of an ideal into my humdrum life.
7 To earn her living in a humdrum way she had no need.
8 Perhaps it was because his own day-to-day existence was placid and humdrum .
9 I'm tired of being a humdrum fairy year in and year out.
10 She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
11 No, I am afraid that Viking is too humdrum to be notable.
12 Her assemblages of apparently humdrum objects are catnip to galleries and collectors.
13 Away from the eerie graveyard of the cliff, the island is humdrum .
14 After all, we are but humdrum people, as the world goes now.
15 Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
16 Rapper Eve further slums down the track with a superfluous, humdrum rap.
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