Qualities
Synonyms for monotony
Synonyms for monotony: humdrum and tedium. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for monotony
Interchangeable with monotony in this sense
Audited under monotony's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one monotony carries in that sense.
- humdrumnoun, in the sense "the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name monotony as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- tediumtedium is a noun in the sense "a state of boredom caused by monotony"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under monotony and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety
He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work.
The true synonym
humdrum
Same sentence, swapped: He had never grown accustomed to the humdrum of his work.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- harmonic
- fullness
- regularity
Where monotony turns up in the game
monotony is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play monotony
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