Word Meanings - MONOTONOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MONOTONOUS)

• Dry
• Arid
• parched
• moistureless
• juiceless
• barren
• tame
• sarcastic
• vapid
• lifeless
• dull
• tedious
• uninteresting
• monotonous
• Tedious
• Wearisome
• tiresome
• dilatory
• dreary
• sluggish
• irksome
• flat
• prolix

Related words: (words related to MONOTONOUS)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• IRKSOME
  1. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton. 2. Weary; vexed; uneasy. Let us therefore learn not to
• VAPID
  Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. Burke. --
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• MONOTONOUS
  Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.
• PARCHING
  Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.
• VAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.
• PARCH
  1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched
• PARCHMENTIZE
  To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.
• PROLIXIOUS
  Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
• DREARY
  dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan 1. Sorrowful; distressful. " Dreary shrieks." Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden.
• PARCHEESI
  See PACHISI
• PARCHEDNESS
  The state of being parched.
• PARCHESI
  See PACHISI
• TEDIOUS
  Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
• PARCHMENT
  pergamenum, L. pergamena, pergamina, fr. L. Pergamenus of or belonging to Pergamus an ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor, where 1. The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• EPARCH
  In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• EPARCHY
  A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
• TOPARCHY
  A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.
• PACHISI; PARCHESI; PARCHISI; PARCHEESI
  A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice.
• PACHISI; PARCHESI
  A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
• UNPARCHED
  Dried up; withered by heat. "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.