noun
- a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
- a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
- recitation or singing of words in such a tone.
- a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, especially in singing.
- sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.
adjective
- monotonous.
- consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape.Compare monochromatic(defs 1, 2).
- Mathematics. monotonic(def 2).
noun
- a single unvaried pitch level in speech, sound, etc
- utterance, etc, without change of pitch
- lack of variety in style, expression. etc
adjective
- unvarying or monotonous
- 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.