Both Uses of
monotonous
in
Moby Dick
- The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.†
Chpt 16-18 *monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.†
Chpt 124-126
Definition:
lacking in variety -- typically boring