monotonously

English

Etymology

From monotonous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

monotonously (comparative more monotonously, superlative most monotonously)

  1. In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
    She worked monotonously at the assembly line.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 97:
      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.
    • 2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      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.”
  2. In a droning manner, that does not change pitch.
    The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.

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