litany meaning

litany as a noun

1. any long and tedious address or recital
   • the patient recited a litany of complaints
   • a litany of failures

   Type of: address

2. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

   Type of: prayer

litany in a sentence

• The calendar, the hours, the seven psalms, and the litany are in almost all the manuscripts.
• Tom didn't want to hear Mary's litany of woes, but he sat quietly and listened.

How to pronounce litany

litany is pronounced /ˈlɪtəni/ in American English. It has 3 syllables, with the stress on the first syllable.