The monotonous sound of water dripping from a leaky faucet She also recommends retraining to think about downtime — whether it`s a line at the grocery store or a monotonous chore — not as a waste of your day, but as an opportunity to relax and unwind. When something goes on and on, in the same way, for a long time, it`s monotonous. Monotonous things are boring and repetitive, like the long story your brother has heard a hundred times. Desperate for a way out of her monotonous existence, Kumiko is obsessed with the disheveled group and plans her trip to Fargo. All they had to offer was low-paid, unskilled monotonous work. The monotonous humidity continues, with dips between the low and mid-70s. The blockbuster Superman Man of Steel is a monotonous CGI show without any humanity. We lived in Derby on a terrace on the outskirts of town, much to my displeasure, for monotonous rows of houses I always hated. It won`t be any more monotonous than having your seventh birthday or falling in love for the first time. The opposite side, which belongs to Hanover, is as flat and monotonous as the other is beautiful. Every punch, sting, explosion and crunch of the robot is necessary, and the action never becomes monotonous. Saturdays and Sundays in prison are more monotonous and boring than the rest of the week, at least for me. The journey becomes monotonous after the exciting moment of launch and the initial curiosity to see the earth from the sky.
Have you ever heard a song that always sounds the same? Have you ever heard a dog barking all day? Or a dull and immutable voice in tone? All these things are monotonous: they don`t change much and are dull like rinse water. Anything boring or boring is probably monotonous. If someone says you`re monotonous, try varying the tone of your voice or the things you`re talking about. It may have been quite captivating in the novels, but its pathetic execution in monotonous films made it clear from the start that Team Jacob never had much luck. At first, I found the effect of so many people swirling in the same direction dizzying and monotonous. Has the fashion for covers become a bit monotonous for you? It was an indigenous melody, but it had the strange monotonous lightness of Tony`s ancient Egyptian melody. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.
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