Preposition: of

• life: It just takes me away from the monotony of daily life.

• day: Nothing breaks the monotony of a long day in front of the computer like a wad of paper falling through a cheering basket.

• work: Zyra's website has been described as " an antidote to the inbox " and helps to relieve the monotony of work.

• landscape: Despite the apparent monotony of this vast landscape, the poachers are able to relocate and recover the ivory months or even years later.

• existence: He played reporter Jude Redfield who needed the story of his life to break the monotony of existence at the local paper.

• training: We consciously attempt to inject something to lift the monotony of training.

Converse of object

• relieve: Sir Arthur had spent many a long weekend with his friend at Bridewell, hoping to relieve the monotony of city life.

• break: Nothing breaks the monotony of a long day in front of the computer like a wad of paper falling through a cheering basket.

• avoid: Their design set out to avoid the monotony of the uniform grid plans of the nineteenth century housing.

• reduce: Changes in color along a corridor help reduce monotony and oppression.

• vary: From this point I am able to quote from the journal which I kept in order to vary the monotony of the long sea-voyage.

• escape: Many people choose driving instruction to escape the monotony of a 9 to 5 office or factory based job.

Adjective modifier

• regular: Public speaking is something that comes round with regular monotony.

• dull: Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.

• rational: Rational Monotony: If Γ A, then either Γ ∪ { B } A or Γ ¬ B.

• endless: Blamgrab came out of his tower, muttering profusely about the endless monotony of the " Egg and Sandwich theory " .

• sheer: Now the darkness seemed to completely surround us, not a glimmer, or even a building to break the sheer monotony.

• tiresome: Character Of The Newer Attic Comedy The pieces are of tiresome monotony.