Definitions for monotones

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monotones mon·o·tone

Spelling: [mon-uh-tohn]

IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌtoʊn/

Monotones is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in monotones (emnnooost).

Definitions for monotones

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 monotones

1635-45; French monotone Late Greek monótonos monotonous

Examples for monotones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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