Monotone

Quick meaning: Monotone is an adjective meaning (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
2. (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
3. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
4. A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
5. (ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

Example Sentences

The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.

In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• monotones
• monotoning
• monotoned

Synonyms for monotone

Depending on context, synonyms include monotonic, monochrome, drone, monotonous, droning, unmusical.

Antonyms for monotone

Common opposites include nonmonotonic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monotonous, monotonic, unmusical, unmelodious, droning, drone.

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