Thesaurus: monotone
A single unvaried tone or sound.
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Definitions
- n. A single unvaried tone or sound.
- n. The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
- adj. of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- adj. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- n. an unchanging intonation
- n. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
- 1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound. 2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
- n:100 n. an unchanging intonation n. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)