monotonous

English

Etymology

monotone +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

• enPR: mə-nŏtʹən-əs, IPA^(key): /məˈnɑtənəs/
• enPR: mə-nŏtʹən-əs, IPA^(key): /məˈnɒtənəs/
• Hyphenation: mo‧not‧o‧nous

Adjective

monotonous (comparative more monotonous, superlative most monotonous)

1. Having an unvarying tone or pitch.
2. Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

Synonyms

• monotonic
• samely

Related terms

• monotone
• monotony

Translations

having an unvarying tone or pitch

• Catalan: monòton
• Czech: monotónní (cs)
• Danish: enstonig, monoton (da)
• Dutch: monotoon (nl), eentonig (nl)
• Esperanto: unutona
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi)
• German: monoton (de)
• Greek: μονότονος (el) (monótonos)
• Hebrew: מונוטוני (monotóni)
• Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu)
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• Irish: (of speech) aontonach
• Italian: monocorde
• Polish: monotonny (pl) m
• Portuguese: monótono (pt)
• Russian: моното́нный (ru) (monotónnyj), однозву́чный (ru) (odnozvúčnyj), одното́нный (ru) (odnotónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: aon-ghuthach
• Spanish: monótono (es)
• Swedish: entonig, monoton (sv)

tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety

• Arabic: مُمِلّ (mumill)
• Catalan: monòton
• Cebuano: puol, sumo, sum-ol
• Czech: monotónní (cs), neměnný m, ztrnulý m, fádní, jednotvárný (cs) m, nudný (cs) m
• Danish: ensformig, monoton (da)
• Dutch: monotoon (nl), eentonig (nl), saai (nl)
• Esperanto: monotona (eo)
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi)
• German: monoton (de), eintönig (de), abwechslungslos
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• Greek: ανιαρός (el) (aniarós)
• Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu)
• Italian: monotono (it)
• Portuguese: monótono (pt)
• Russian: моното́нный (ru) (monotónnyj), однообра́зный (ru) (odnoobráznyj), ску́чный (ru) (skúšnyj)
• Spanish: monótono (es)
• Swedish: enformig (sv)
• Westrobothnian: ,

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} monotone (fr), ^{(please verify)} ennuyeux (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) Japanese: 単調な (たんちょうな, tanchō na)
• (deprecated template usage) Korean: 단조로운 (danjoroun)
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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} monotonus
• (deprecated template usage) Mandarin: 单调 (dāndiào)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} monoton (sv)

Anagrams

• ontonomous