Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of tone or sound; sonorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in tone or sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Abounding in
tone orsound .
Etymologies
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tone + -ous
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Examples
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But if she missed home, she did not complain, and settled into the mono - tonous life of the "Army wife" with the same kind of enthusiasm and interest as Reed's.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943
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