MONOTONE

flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous

(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; “the owl’s faint monotonous hooting”

monotonic, monotone

(adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

monotone, drone, droning

(noun) an unchanging intonation

monotone

(noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

monotone (comparative more monotone, superlative most monotone)

(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

(mathematics) Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.

The function $\backslash (f(x):=x^3\backslash )$ is monotone on $\backslash (\backslash R\backslash )$, while $\backslash (g(x):=x^2\backslash )$ is not.

Noun

monotone (countable and uncountable, plural monotones)

A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.

A piece of writing in one strain throughout.

Verb

monotone (third-person singular simple present monotones, present participle monotoning, simple past and past participle monotoned)

(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mon"o*tone, n. Etym: [See Monotonous, Monotony.]

1. (Mus.)

Definition: A single unvaried tone or sound.

2. (Rhet.)

Definition: The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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