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We hope to replace people with robots for the most monotonous work.monotonous = lacking variety and boring
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She read the three pages aloud in a monotonous voice.monotonous = lacking in variety of tone or pitch
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I find the worksheets monotonous.monotonous = boring
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The cafeteria food is good, but it gets monotonous after a while.monotonous = boring (from a lack of variety)
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The study indicates that traffic accidents from falling asleep increase on long, straight, monotonous roads.monotonous = lacking in variety and boring
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It makes me think of Ben Stein's monotonous lecture in the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.monotonous = lacking in variety of tone or pitch
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Nothing is so monotonous as the open sea on a still day.monotonous = lacking in variety
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During the next week, Cole settled into the monotonous routine of the detention center. (source)monotonous = lacking in variety
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The desert, with its endless monotony, put him to dreaming. (source)monotony = lack of variety
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He got so frantic that he began to thrash from side to side like someone very sick with a high fever who can only monotonously repeat a motion or a word. (source)monotonously = without variety
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Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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That close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with sunshine and full of butterflies,—all this attracted him.† (source)
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The monotonous beat of the dragon's wings made his eyes feel heavy. (source)monotonous = lacking in variety (continually sounding the same)
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I remember the monotony. Digging foxholes. Slapping mosquitoes. The sun and the heat and the endless paddies. (source)monotony = lack of variety
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So he continued monotonously to chew tobacco and to increase the length of his amber beard. (source)monotonously = with a lack of variety
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There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse.† (source)
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For the first hours, the drama of the storm kept them fascinated, amazed at its power, wondering when the next peal of thunder would shake the cliffs. Then the driving rain became simply monotonous, (source)monotonous = uninteresting due to lack of variety
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