MONOTONY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MONOTONY?

Need another word that means the same as “monotony”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “monotony” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Monotony” are: humdrum, sameness, tedium, tediousness, lack of variety, dullness, boredom, lack of variation, repetitiveness, repetitiousness, repetition, unchangingness, uniformity, routine, routineness, tiresomeness, humdrumness, lack of interest, lack of excitement, prosaicness, dreariness, colourlessness, flatness, lack of inflection, drone

Monotony as a Noun

Definitions of "Monotony" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “monotony” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Sameness of pitch or tone in a sound or utterance.
• Constancy of tone or pitch or inflection.
• Lack of variety and interest; tedious repetition and routine.
• The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.

Synonyms of "Monotony" as a noun (25 Words)

boredom	The state of feeling bored. I ll die of boredom if I live that long.
colourlessness	The visual property of being without chromatic color.
dreariness	Extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest.
drone	A musical instrument or part of one sounding a continuous note of low pitch in particular also drone pipe a pipe in a bagpipe or also drone string a string in an instrument such as a hurdy gurdy or a sitar. A drone was sent to explore the depths.
dullness	Lack of sensibility. A desert of unremitting flatness and dullness.
flatness	The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss. It needed lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried lentils.
humdrum	The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety. An escape from the humdrum of his life.
humdrumness	The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.
lack of excitement	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of inflection	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of interest	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of variation	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of variety	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
prosaicness	Commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting.
repetition	The repeating of a passage or note. Lie on your back and bench press a light weight very quickly over ten repetitions.
repetitiousness	Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions.
repetitiveness	Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions.
routine	A short performance that is part of a longer program. I settled down into a routine of work and sleep.
routineness	Dull regularity of events or actions. The routineness of life.
sameness	Lack of variety; uniformity or monotony. He hated the sameness of the food the college served.
tediousness	Dullness owing to length or slowness.
tedium	Dullness owing to length or slowness. The tedium of car journeys.
tiresomeness	Dullness owing to length or slowness.
unchangingness	The quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged.
uniformity	The quality or state of being uniform. An attempt to impose administrative and cultural uniformity.

Usage Examples of "Monotony" as a noun

• You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity.
• He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work.
• Depression flattens the voice almost to monotony.

Associations of "Monotony" (30 Words)

banal	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Songs with banal repeated words.
banality	A trite or obvious remark. There is an essential banality to the story he tells.
boredom	The state of feeling bored. I ll die of boredom if I live that long.
boring	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. A boring evening with uninteresting people.
bromide	A sedative preparation containing potassium bromide. Feel good bromides create the illusion of problem solving.
cliche	A trite or obvious remark.
commonplace	A notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. His remarks were trite and commonplace.
dull	Become dull or lusterless in appearance lose shine or brightness. His competent but dull performance.
ennui	A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. He succumbed to ennui and despair.
hackneyed	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Hackneyed old sayings.
hesitance	A feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something. We must overcome our hesitance.
humdrum	Monotonous routine. Humdrum routine work.
irksome	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. What an irksome task the writing of long letters is.
lackluster	Lacking brilliance or vitality. A dull lackluster life.
mediocrity	A person of second-rate ability or value. The team suddenly came good after years of mediocrity.
monotonous	Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity.
platitude	A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. She began uttering liberal platitudes.
prosaic	Not fanciful or imaginative. A prosaic and unimaginative essay.
shopworn	(of an article) made dirty or imperfect by being displayed or handled in a shop; shop-soiled. He appraised his brown but slightly shopworn body in the mirror.
solitude	A lonely or uninhabited place. The battle to preserve beloved solitudes flared up all over the country.
tedious	Using or containing too many words. Tedious days on the train.
tedium	The state or quality of being tedious. The tedium of car journeys.
tiresome	Causing one to feel bored or annoyed. Weeding is a tiresome but essential job.
tiring	Producing exhaustion. It had been a tiring day.
trite	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. This point may now seem obvious and trite.
uninteresting	Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative. The scenery is dull and uninteresting.
unvaried	Not involving change. A plain unvaried diet.
verbose	Using or expressed in more words than are needed. Verbose and ineffective instructional methods.
wearing	The mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down as by particles washing over it. It would be a lot less wearing if we could work together amicably.
wearisome	Causing one to feel tired or bored. They insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soir es.