Vocabulary Word
Word: monotony
Definition: sameness leading to boredom; monotonousness; ADJ. monotonous; CF. monotone
Definition: sameness leading to boredom; monotonousness; ADJ. monotonous; CF. monotone
Sentences Containing 'monotony'
But there is no redeeming feature in the Manchegan landscape; it has all the sameness of the desert without its dignity; the few towns and villages that break its monotony are mean and commonplace, there is nothing venerable about them, they have not even the picturesqueness of poverty; indeed, Don Quixote's own village, Argamasilla, has a sort of oppressive respectability in the prim regularity of its streets and houses; everything is ignoble; the very windmills are the ugliest and shabbiest of the windmill kind.
In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of the re-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction!
Now and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the conversation soon flagged.
At first, she seemed to wonder at the gentle compassion with which the Doctor spoke to her, and at his wish that she should have her mother with her, to relieve the dull monotony of her life.
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