monochrome

noun

1. a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color.
2. the art or technique of producing such a painting or drawing.
3. the state or condition of being painted, decorated, etc., in shades of a single color.

adjective

4. being or made in the shades of a single color: a blue monochrome seascape.
5. having the images reproduced in tones of gray: monochrome television.

noun

1. a black-and-white photograph or transparency
2. photog black and white
3. 1. a painting, drawing, etc, done in a range of tones of a single colour
   2. the technique or art of this
4. (modifier) executed in or resembling monochromea monochrome print

adjective

5. devoid of any distinctive or stimulating characteristics

n.1660s, “painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color,” from Greek monochromos “of a single color,” from monos “single, alone” (see mono-) + khroma (genitive khromatos) “color, complexion, skin” (see chroma). As an adjective from 1849. Photographic sense is recorded from 1940.