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MONOTONOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monotonously mean?
• MONOTONOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb MONOTONOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a monotonous manner
Familiarity information: MONOTONOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a monotonous manner
Context example:
the history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful
Pertainym:
monotonous (tediously repetitious or lacking in variety)
Context examples
I had arrived early in the day, and we had still three or four hours before dinner; but she sat there, plying her knitting-needles as monotonously as an hour-glass might have poured out its sands.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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