monotone

  • (a) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value monotonic,
  • (s) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
    • the owl's faint monotonous hooting
    monotonic, monotonous, flat,

Nouns

  • (n) an unchanging intonation droning, drone,
  • (n) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

Synonyms

droning drone monotonic monotonous flat

Antonyms

nonmonotonic

Words of close approximity

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