All 5 Uses
monotonous
in
East of Eden
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- He walked on out of the woodlot, and his head hung down so that his chin rested on his chest, and the rise and fall of his hip when his wooden leg struck the ground was monotonous.†
Chpt 3 *monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- And the monotonous sound that had been there all along was the cry of the twins, wanting their dinner.†
Chpt 17
- After that sounds joined the parade of perception—sparrows haggling among themselves, a bawling cow monotonously berating a punching hungry calf, a blue jay's squawk of false excitement, the sharp warning of a cock quail on guard and the answering whisper of the hen quail somewhere near in the tall grass.†
Chpt 32
- After they had left, two of the girls got into a tired and monotonous quarrel, and Therese turned up with the first symptoms of the old Joe.†
Chpt 50
- In the still night the monotonous scattering music of the skating rink could be heard from many blocks away.†
Chpt 53
Definitions:
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(1)
(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)