as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the lecturer's monotonous delivery threatened to put us to sleep
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Recent Examples of monotonous
Every actor would love to take an arc, not just stay monotonous throughout the piece.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
If Hallmark’s business model were a Hallmark movie, the logline would be straightforward: Tired of the monotonous dating landscape, a hardworking woman is ready to try something different.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
That marked the point for me at which Teacup went from tantalizing if never emotionally engaging to thoroughly monotonous.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
Cooking every single night can become a little monotonous and honestly, a little exhausting.
—Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
If Hallmark’s business model were a Hallmark movie, the logline would be straightforward: Tired of the monotonous dating landscape, a hardworking woman is ready to try something different.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
That marked the point for me at which Teacup went from tantalizing if never emotionally engaging to thoroughly monotonous.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
Cooking every single night can become a little monotonous and honestly, a little exhausting.
—Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monotonous
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Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Similarly, listening as a member of a large audience or having to listen for a long time was also tiring.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Working while speaking was more annoying but less tiring than silence and noise.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
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The shutter speed of the 6X zoom is relatively slow in low light conditions, resulting in blurry shots more often than with, say, the Vivo X200 Pro.Ben Sin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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However, even for a slow jog, that’s exactly what happened.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Sweet Rose High Rolled Accent Chair Brighten up dull spaces with this floral accent chair that’s on major sale ahead of Black Friday.Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Peter Field and Adam Morgan call it the ‘extraordinary cost of dull’.Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Give yourself permission to go see a truly stupid movie.Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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Among the show’s many, many, many Twilight Zone spoofs, this one is the funniest and the best, with a conclusion that’s equal parts brilliant and stupid.Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Without outside support, pro-democracy activists inside the country faced increasing repression and were unable to convince the weary public that democracy was worth fighting for.Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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Fostering independence: These electronic devices can offer respite to weary parents, but only if their kids can use them independently.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
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For her debut spring 2025 collection, Waksal worked with lightweight and fluid materials in neutral tones (black, ivory, dusty gray, bone, army green and white) across mix-and-match styles that can easily move and be layered.Emily Mercer, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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While the bride was in the bathroom, the mother-in-law showed the groom-to-be the two dresses — the dusty pink bridesmaid dress and the darker dress — and asked him to pick which one looks best.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Monotonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monotonous. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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