monotone

[ mon-uh-tohn ]

/ ˈmɒn əˌtoʊn /

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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).

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Origin of monotone

1635–45; <French monotone<Late Greek monótonosmonotonous

Words nearby monotone

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How to use monotone in a sentence

It features a monotone camera bump, similar to the recently released Samsung S21 FE.
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Both were narrated by a man in a monotone, with the actors barely audible in the background.
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He describes a public defender as having “grainy eyes,” as if he had “been up all night” — a lawyer who “sighs massively, impatiently” and “speaks in a monotone” in response to Adams’s questions.
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The new voice TikTok has now added is more upbeat, which doesn’t work as well in some videos where the point was to use a monotone.
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We work virtually together often, and his WFH situation is in a room far away from his WiFi source, which means I spend a lot of time staring at his frozen face while repeating his name in monotone during important conversations.
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British Dictionary definitions for monotone

monotone

/ (ˈmɒnəˌtəʊn) /

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

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monotone

Origin of monotone

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