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monotonous - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: monotonous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all the same, remaining the same
Synonyms: blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, dull, flat, humdrum*, nothing, pedestrian, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, soporific, tedious, tiresome, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninteresting, unvarying, wearisome, banausic, droning, dull as dishwater, flat as pancake, ho-hum, monotone, plodding, puts one to sleep, reiterated, samely, sing-song, toneless, treadmill, uninflected, unrelieved, unvaried, wearying
Antonyms: changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile, ever-changing
Main Entry: blah
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, lifeless
Synonyms: bland, boring, dim, dreary, humdrum, monotonous, pedestrian, banausic, monotone, plodding, yawn producing
Antonyms: exciting, spirited, full of life
Main Entry: boring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uninteresting
Synonyms: arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn
Antonyms: exciting, fascinating, interesting
Main Entry: endless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not stopping, not finishing
Synonyms: boundless, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, countless, deathless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immeasurable, immortal, incalculable, incessant, indeterminate, infinite, interminable, limitless, monotonous, multitudinous, never-ending, numberless, perpetual, unbroken, undivided, undying, unending, unfathomable, uninterrupted, unlimited, untold, amaranthine, illimitable, measureless, no end of, no end to, overlong, self-perpetuating, unbounded, unsurpassable, without end
Antonyms: bounded, ending, limited, passing, stopping, completing, finishing, terminable
Main Entry: frequent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, repeated
Synonyms: commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, profuse, recurrent, redundant, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various, a good many, iterated, pleonastic, recurring, reiterated, reiterative
Antonyms: inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unusual, unrepeated
Main Entry: humdrum
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boring, uneventful
Synonyms: arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread
Antonyms: busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual
Main Entry: incessant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: never-ending, persistent
Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, endless, eternal, everlasting, interminable, monotonous, nonstop, perpetual, relentless, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unrelenting, day-and-night, interminate, round-the-clock, unremitting
Antonyms: broken, ending, intermittent, interrupted, ceasing
Main Entry: invariable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not changing
Synonyms: changeless, consistent, constant, fixed, immovable, immutable, inflexible, monotonous, perpetual, regular, rigid, same, set, static, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unfailing, uniform, unvarying, unwavering, inalterable, undiversified, unmodifiable, unrelieved
Antonyms: changeable, changing, variable, varying
Main Entry: mechanical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: done by machine; machinelike
Synonyms: automated, automatic, cold, cursory, emotionless, fixed, habitual, impersonal, instinctive, involuntary, lifeless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, perfunctory, routine, spiritless, standardized, stereotyped, unchanging, unconscious, unfeeling, unthinking, useful, laborsaving, machine-driven, programmed
Antonyms: by hand, conscious, feeling, manual
Main Entry: pedestrian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: everyday, dull
Synonyms: banal, blah*, boring, commonplace, dim, dreary, flat, humdrum*, inane, jejune, mediocre, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, wishy-washy*, banausic, monotone, platitudinous, plodding, truistic
Antonyms: different, exceptional, extraordinary, interesting
Main Entry: prosaic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unimaginative
Synonyms: actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, hackneyed, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, monotonous, mundane, nothing, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, vanilla*, vapid, yawn*, zero*, diddly, garden-variety, ho-hum, lusterless, matter-of- fact, nowhere, platitudinous, prosy, uninspiring, workaday
Antonyms: creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking
Main Entry: stodgy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, stuffy
Synonyms: boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty, banausic, plodding
Antonyms: adventurous, exciting, ready, willing
Main Entry: tiresome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritating, exasperating
Synonyms: annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying
Antonyms: easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating
Main Entry: unexciting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull
Synonyms: blah, boring, common, dead, dreary, familiar, humdrum*, long-winded, monotonous, ordinary, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill*, uneventful, unimaginative, uninteresting, usual, big yawn, ho hum, uninspiring, usual thing
Main Entry: uninteresting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boring, uneventful
Synonyms: arid, banal, common, commonplace, depressing, dismal, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusty*, flat, humdrum, insipid, irksome, jejune, monotonous, nothing*, pedestrian, prosaic, soporific, stale, stupid, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unexciting, wearisome, big yawn, bromidic, fatiguing, ho hum, nowhere, prosy, unenjoyable, unentertaining, uninspiring
Antonyms: eventful, exciting, interesting
Main Entry: repetitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: repetitious
Synonyms: boring, ceaseless, constant, continual, dull, insistent, monotonous, repeated, uninteresting, verbose
Main Entry: bland
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tasteless; undistinctive
Synonyms: banal, blah*, boring, dull, flat, flavorless, humdrum, insipid, monotonous, nothing, pabulum*, tame, tedious, unexciting, uninteresting, vanilla*, vapid, watery, weak, wishy-washy*, zero*, dull as dishwater, ho hum, milk-and-water, nerdy, sapless*, uninspiring, unstimulating, waterish, wimpy
Antonyms: delicious, distinctive, sharp, tasty, yummy
Main Entry: common
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: average, ordinary
Synonyms: accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill*, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, usual, wearisome, worn-out, comformable, unvaried, workaday
Notes: mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead
Antonyms: abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable
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