Definitions for monotone

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monotone mon·o·tone

Spelling: [mon-uh-tohn]

IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌtoʊn/

Monotone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in monotone (emnnooot).

Definitions for monotone

noun

1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
2. a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone.
4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, especially in singing.
5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.

adjective

1. monotonous.
2. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: Compare monochromatic (defs 1, 2).
3. Mathematics. monotonic (def 2).

Origin of monotone

1635-45; French monotone Late Greek monótonos monotonous

Examples for monotone

"Her husband caused it by kicking her in the stomach," she said in a monotone.

The computer graphics are monotone overlaid in Lucky Charms leprechaun green.

The inexorable voice went on in its monotone, as if he had not spoken.

“And to see great fashion,” he added half-heartedly, in monotone and with no punctuation.

Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.

Hours passed by and the judge read his charges in a monotone.

Good,” he said, in a monotone voice that sounded more like he meant “bad.

The voice was a monotone, minus expression, almost minus life.

Then her voice rose above the monotone that had contented her hitherto.

There was a monotone of desolation as she went on speaking in a whisper meant for the ears of no other.