Meaning

3 senses
  1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

    Eintönigkeit, Monotonie

    the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

  2. The property of a monotonic function.

    Monotonie

  3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

    constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

Examples

9 sentences
  1. I’m sick of the everyday monotony.

    deIch bin die Monotonie des Alltags leid.

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  2. Art breaks the monotony of our life.

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  3. I’m done with the monotony of life.

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  4. What can we do to relieve the monotony?

    ruЧто можно сделать, чтобы скрасить это однообразие?

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  5. I was bored with the monotony of daily life.

    ruЯ изнывал от однообразия обыденной жизни.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
tedium:

Origin

From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía,

From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).

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Forms

plural: monotonies
Singularmonotony
Pluralmonotonies

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
tedium:boredomB1
Close in meaning
  • the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety:humdrumsameness

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
monotony — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto