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