monotonous

English

Etymology

monotone +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: mə-nŏtʹən-əs, IPA^(key): /məˈnɑtənəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mə-nŏtʹən-əs, IPA^(key): /məˈnɒtənəs/
• Hyphenation: mo‧not‧o‧nous

Adjective

monotonous (comparative more monotonous, superlative most monotonous)

1. Having an unvarying tone or pitch.
2. Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

Related terms

• monotone
• monotony

Synonyms

• (having an unvarying tone or pitch): level, monotone, monotonic
• (lacking in variety): samely; see also Thesaurus:steady or Thesaurus:repetitive

Antonyms

• various

Translations

having an unvarying tone or pitch

• Bulgarian: монотонен (bg) (monotonen), еднообразен (bg) (ednoobrazen)
• Catalan: monòton
• Czech: monotónní (cs)
• Danish: enstonig, monoton (da)
• Dutch: monotoon (nl), eentonig (nl)
• Esperanto: unutona
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi)
• Galician: monótono m
• German: monoton (de)
• Greek: μονότονος (el) (monótonos)

  Ancient: μονότονος (monótonos)

• Hebrew: מונוטוני‎ (he) (monotóni)

• Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu)
• Irish: (of speech) aontonach
• Italian: monocorde
• Japanese: 単調な (ja) (tanchō na)
• Polish: monotonny (pl) m
• Portuguese: monótono (pt)
• Russian: моното́нный (ru) (monotónnyj), однозву́чный (ru) (odnozvúčnyj), одното́нный (ru) (odnotónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: aon-ghuthach
• Spanish: monótono (es)
• Swedish: entonig, monoton (sv)

tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety

• Arabic: مُمِلّ‎ (mumill)
• Bulgarian: скучен (bg) (skučen)
• Catalan: monòton
• Cebuano: puol, sumo, sum-ol
• Czech: monotónní (cs), neměnný m, ztrnulý m, fádní, jednotvárný (cs) m, nudný (cs) m
• Danish: ensformig, monoton (da)
• Dutch: monotoon (nl), eentonig (nl), saai (nl)
• Esperanto: monotona (eo)
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen (fi), monotoninen (fi)
• Galician: monótono m
• German: monoton (de), eintönig (de), abwechslungslos (de)

• Greek: ανιαρός (el) (aniarós)
• Hungarian: egyhangú (hu), monoton (hu)
• Italian: monotono (it)
• Japanese: 単調な (ja) (tanchō na)
• Portuguese: monótono (pt)
• Russian: моното́нный (ru) (monotónnyj), однообра́зный (ru) (odnoobráznyj), ску́чный (ru) (skúčnyj)
• Spanish: monótono (es)
• Swedish: enformig (sv)
• Westrobothnian: aindjaing, äjnjäng

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} monotone (fr), ^{(please verify)} ennuyeux (fr)
• Korean: 단조로운 (danjoroun)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} monotonus
• Mandarin: 单调 (zh) (dāndiào)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} monoton (sv)

Anagrams

• ontonomous