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Monotone

Monotone Meaning & Definition
Monotone Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Monotone?

[n] an unchanging intonation
[adj] sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
[adj] (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

Synonyms | Synonyms for Monotone: decreasing monotonic | drone | droning | increasing monotonic | monotonic | monotonous | unmelodic | unmelodious | unmusical

Related Terms | Find terms related to Monotone: AF | alliterating | alliteration | alliterative | array | articulation | assonance | assonant | audio frequency | banausic | bank | belabored | blah | buzz | catena | catenation | chain | chain reaction | chaining | chanting | chime | chiming | cliche-ridden | clockwork regularity | concatenation | connection | consecution | constancy | continuum | course | cycle | daily round | descent | dim | dingdong | dreary | drone | droning | endless belt | endless round | even pace | even tenor | file | filiation | frequency | fundamental | fundamental tone | gamut | gradation | harmonic | harping | hum | humdrum | Indian file | intonation | invariability | jingle | jingle-jangle | jog-trot | labored | line | lineage | monologue | monotonic | monotonous | monotonousness | monotony | near rhyme | nexus | orderliness | overtone | partial | partial tone | pedestrian | pendulum | periodicity | pitch | pitter-patter | plenum | poky | powder train | progression | queue | range | rank | recurrence | regularity | repeated sounds | repetitiousness | repetitiveness | reticulation | rhyme | rhymed | rhyming | rotation | round | routine | row | run | sameliness | sameness | scale | sequence | series | single file | singsong | slant rhyme | smoothness | soniferous | sonorous | sounded | sounding | spectrum | stale repetition | stodgy | string | succession | swath | tedious | tedium | thread | tier | tonal | tone | toneless | tonelessness | train | treadmill | trot | undeviation | undifferentiation | unnecessary repetition | unvariation | windrow

See Also | intonation | modulation | pitch contour

Monotone In Webster's Dictionary

\Mon"o*tone\, n. [See {Monotonous}, {Monotony}.] 1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound. 2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

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