monotony 音标拼音: [mən'ɑtəni]
n . 单调,干燥,无味
单调,乾燥,无味
monotony n 1 :
the quality of wearisome constancy ,
routine ,
and lack of variety ; "
he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work "; "
he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners "; "
he hated the sameness of the food the college served " [
synonym : {
monotony }, {
humdrum }, {
sameness }]
2 :
constancy of tone or pitch or inflection Monotony \
Mo *
not "
o *
ny \,
n . [
Gr . ?:
cf .
F .
monotonie .
See {
Monotonius }.]
1 .
A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound ,
producing a dull uniformity ;
absence of variety ,
as in speaking or singing .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Any irksome sameness ,
or want of variety .
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1913 Webster ]
At sea ,
everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention . --
W .
Irving .
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1913 Webster ]
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "
monotony ":
AF ,
alliteration ,
assonance ,
audio frequency ,
boredom ,
broken record ,
ceaselessness ,
chime ,
clockwork regularity ,
consecutiveness ,
constancy ,
constant flow ,
continualness ,
continuity ,
continuousness ,
daily round ,
dingdong ,
drone ,
dryness ,
endlessness ,
ennui ,
equilibrium ,
even pace ,
even tenor ,
featurelessness ,
flatness ,
frequency ,
fullness ,
fundamental ,
fundamental tone ,
gaplessness ,
harmonic ,
harping ,
humdrum ,
incessancy ,
intonation ,
invariability ,
irk ,
irksomeness ,
jingle ,
jingle -
jangle ,
jointlessness ,
monologue ,
monotone ,
monotonousness ,
near rhyme ,
orderliness ,
overtone ,
partial ,
partial tone ,
pitch ,
pitter -
patter ,
plenitude ,
regularity ,
repeated sounds ,
repetitiousness ,
repetitiveness ,
rhyme ,
sameliness ,
sameness ,
seamlessness ,
singsong ,
slant rhyme ,
smoothness ,
stability ,
stale repetition ,
steadiness ,
steady state ,
successiveness ,
tedium ,
the beaten track ,
the daily round ,
the round ,
the squirrel cage ,
the treadmill ,
the weary round ,
tone ,
tonelessness ,
treadmill ,
trot ,
unbrokenness ,
undeviation ,
undifferentiation ,
uniformity ,
unintermittedness ,
uninterruptedness ,
uninterruption ,
unnecessary repetition ,
unrelievedness ,
unvariation ,
wearisome sameness
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