monotone









monotone


noun

  1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
  2. a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
  3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone.
  4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, especially in singing.
  5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.

adjective

  1. monotonous.
  2. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape.Compare monochromatic(defs 1, 2).
  3. Mathematics. monotonic(def 2).

noun

  1. a single unvaried pitch level in speech, sound, etc
  2. utterance, etc, without change of pitch
  3. lack of variety in style, expression. etc

adjective

  1. unvarying or monotonous
  2. Also: monotonic (ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk) maths (of a sequence or function) consistently increasing or decreasing in value

n.“unvarying tone in music or speaking,” 1640s; see monotony. OED says use of the word as a noun “is peculiar to Eng.” Related: Monotonic; monotonically.

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