monochromaticallyadv.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)krəˈmatᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈˌmɑnəkrəˈmædək(ə)li/ 1. Without regard to colour. rare.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adverb] > monochromatically
chromatically1854
monochromatically1880
1880 Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 376 Nothing is more puzzling to beginners than to determine between two very opposite colours as to which is the darkest in tone, or, to use a long word monochromatically.
2. Colourlessly; in a monochrome or monochromatic way. Also in extended use.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adverb]
so-so1530
indifferently?c1550
meanly1550
colourlessly1572
indifferent1583
passable1591
passablya1610
nohow1779
so-soishly1842
so-and-so1844
monochromatically1890
serviceably1896
comme ci, comme ça1945
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in bland or insipid manner
colourlessly1572
tamely1600
flatly1644
frigidly1647
insipidly1699
vapidly1847
monochromatically1890
unatmospherically1913
anonymously1939
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 408 For development, a monochromatically lighted room is still a necessity.
1929 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 228 427 An ‘absorption line’ produced by monochromatically scattering atoms placed in front of a radiating surface.
1972 Daily Tel. 31 May 10/3 Janacek's Sonata ‘1905’..was massively though rather monochromatically delivered.
1989 Jrnl. Luminescence 43 243/2 It was possible to study the dynamics of the monochromatically generated phonons without additional effects from broadband phonons.
2000 San Francisco Examiner 27 Oct. c17 Marks is sensual and enigmatically composed in the monochromatically written part of Judas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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