'Monotone' definitions:
Definition of 'monotone'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: monotonic, monotone] [ant: nonmonotonic]
adjective
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous]
noun
noun
A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
Definition of 'Monotone'
From: GCIDE
- Monotone \Mon"o*tone\, n. [See Monotonous, Monotony.]
- 1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch. [1913 Webster] Monotonic
Synonyms of 'monotone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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