monotone
adjEtymology
From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.
- derived from monotonus
Definitions
Having a single unvaried pitch.
- 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.
- In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
Of a function
Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
- The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.
Synonym of monochrome.
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A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
- 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.
- There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
To speak in a monotone.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for monotone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA