monotonously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
Example Sentences
- "She worked monotonously at the assembly line."
- "Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance."
- "The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”"
- "The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze."
Etymology
Etymology tree English monotone Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English monotonous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English monotonously From monotonous + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more monotonously (comparative)
most monotonously (superlative)