Monotone

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  • noun. A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.
  • noun. A chant in a single tone.
  • noun. Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.
  • adjective. Characterized by or uttered in a monotone.
  • adjective. Of or having a single color.
  • adjective. Designating sequences, the successive members of which either consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative value. Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To recite in a single, unvaried tone; intone; chant.
  • noun. A single or uniform tint or color.
  • noun. In rhetoric, a sameness of tone; the utterance of successive syllables at one unvaried pitch, with little or no inflection or cadence.
  • noun. Monotony or sameness of style in writing or speaking.
  • noun. In music:
  • noun. A single tone, without harmony or variation in pitch.
  • noun. Recitation of words in such a tone, especially in a church service, sometimes with harmonic accompaniment and with occasional inflections or melodic variations; intoning; chanting.
  • noun. Something spoken or written in one tone or strain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A single unvaried tone or sound.
  • noun. The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. having a single unvaried pitch
  • adjective. property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing
  • noun. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
  • verb. To speak in a monotone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
  • adjective. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
  • noun. an unchanging intonation
  • noun. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
  • Word Usage
    "It features Kareem Abdul Jabbar jabbering in monotone about the dangers of strangers, among things."
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    baritone  beep  cadence  chant  chirp  
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