Monotone

Adjective

 * 1)  having a single unvaried pitch
 * 2) * 1799, John Walker, Elements of Elocution, Cooper and Wilson, page 309:
 * It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.
 * 1) * 1940, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society, page 95:
 * The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
 * 1) * 1998, Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business, Georgetown University Press, Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings, page 76:
 * In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
 * 1)  property of a function to be either decreasing or increasing
 * 2) * The function $$f(x):=x^3$$ is monotone while $$g(x):=x^2$$ is not.

Noun

 * 1) A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
 * When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.

Derived terms

 * monotonic
 * monotonous
 * monotony

Verb

 * 1)  To speak in a monotone.

Adjectives for Monotone
solemn; enchanting; dolorous; maddening; chanting; soothing; weirdly-spoken; mumbling; eternal; indistinguishable.

Thesaurus
AF, Indian file, 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, 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

Etymology
From the post-Classical monotonus: or its etymon the Koine Greek μονότονος:; compare cognate adjectives, namely the  monotone:, the  monoton:, the  monotono:, and the  monótono:, as well as the slightly earlier  noun monotony: and adjective monotonical:.

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Adjective

 * 1) Monotone
 * 2) Whose speech is monotone.
 * 3) Boring due to uniformity or lack of variety; monotonous.

Adjective
monotone


 * 1) Feminine plural form of monotono