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• Received-Pronunciation: mə-nŏtʹən-əs
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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈnɒtənəs/
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• General-American: mə-nŏtʹən-əs
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• General-American: /məˈnɑtənəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 N AA1 T AH0 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English monotone Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h3édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English monotonous From monotone + -ous.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: монотонен (monotonen) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Bulgarian: еднообразен (ednoobrazen) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Catalan: monòton — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Czech: monotónní — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Danish: enstonig — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Danish: monoton — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Dutch: monotoon — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Dutch: eentonig — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Esperanto: unutona — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Finnish: monotoninen — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Galician: monótono — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• German: monoton — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Greek: μονότονος (monótonos) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Ancient Greek: μονότονος (monótonos) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Hebrew: מונוטוני (monotóni) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Hungarian: egyhangú — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Hungarian: monoton — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Irish: aontonach — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Italian: monocorde — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Japanese: 単調な (tanchō na) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Macedonian: мо́нотон (mónoton) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Macedonian: едноо́бразен (ednoóbrazen) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Macedonian: едно́личен (ednóličen) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Macedonian: е́днолик (édnolik) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Polish: monotonny — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Portuguese: monótono — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Russian: моното́нный (monotónnyj) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Russian: однозву́чный (odnozvúčnyj) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Russian: одното́нный (odnotónnyj) — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Scottish Gaelic: aon-ghuthach — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Spanish: monótono — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Swedish: entonig — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Swedish: monoton — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Turkish: tekdüze — having an unvarying tone or pitch
• Arabic: مُمِلّ (mumill) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Bulgarian: скучен (skučen) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Catalan: monòton — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Cebuano: puol — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Cebuano: sumo — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Cebuano: sum-ol — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Chinese Mandarin: 單調 /单调 (dāndiào) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: monotónní — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: neměnný — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: ztrnulý — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: fádní — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: jednotvárný — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Czech: nudný — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Danish: ensformig — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Danish: monoton — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Dutch: monotoon — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Dutch: eentonig — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Dutch: saai — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Esperanto: monotona — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: yksitoikkoinen — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: monotoninen — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: pitkäveteinen — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: pitkäpiimäinen — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: ikävystyttävä — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Finnish: kyllästyttävä — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Galician: monótono — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• German: monoton — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• German: eintönig — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• German: abwechslungslos — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Greek: ανιαρός (aniarós) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Hungarian: egyhangú — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Hungarian: monoton — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Italian: monotono — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Japanese: 単調な (tanchō na) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Macedonian: до́саден (dósaden) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Macedonian: здо́девен (zdódeven) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Portuguese: monótono — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Russian: моното́нный (monotónnyj) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Russian: однообра́зный (odnoobráznyj) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Russian: ску́чный (skúčnyj) — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Spanish: monótono — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Swedish: enformig — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
• Turkish: tekdüze — tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety