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Monotonous

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.

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Dull 84% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Dull 84% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Flat 92% connected

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Humdrum 92% connected

Monotonous; dull; commonplace.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Monotone 92% connected

A single unvaried tone or sound.

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Monotonic 92% connected

Alt. of Monotonical

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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

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Ampere noun · 78% connection

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…

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Break verb · 78% connection

To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, bu…

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Burden noun · 78% connection

That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

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Change verb · 78% connection

To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation…

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Conversion noun · 78% connection

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world t…

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D unknown · 78% connection

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

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Drab noun · 78% connection

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

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Emphatical adjective · 78% connection

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; fo…

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Epiploce noun · 78% connection

A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, bu…

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Equality noun · 78% connection

Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

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Fricative adjective · 78% connection

Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs…

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Grumble noun · 78% connection

a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

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Grumbling noun · 78% connection

a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

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Ha interj. · 78% connection

An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined…

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Interrupt verb · 78% connection

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

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Keynote noun · 78% connection

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modul…

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Monotony noun · 78% connection

A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.

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