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Monotone

noun

An unchanging intonation. Synonyms: drone, droning.

A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts).

adjective

Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value. Synonym: monotonic.

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous.

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"Monotone" Quotes from Famous Books

... she looked at him, with a kind of solemn yet eager scrutiny. "I was afraid," she said, after some hesitation, speaking still in a dull monotone, whose strangely sorrowful accents were marked and impressive, and in a voice whose tone was constrained and stiff, but yet had something in it which deepened the General's perplexity—"I was afraid that perhaps you might have witnessed some marks of agitation in me. ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... has: there was a note in it that might have belonged to a child's voice; another, more primitive, that betrayed feeling with as little reserve as the cry of an animal. Then it sank, and went on in a monotone, like a Hebrew prayer, as if reiterating things worn threadbare by repetition, and already said too often. Gradually, it died away in the surrounding silence. There was no response but a gentle rustling of the leaves overhead. It began anew, and, in the interval, ...

— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson

... his fiddle along, and those were wonderful tunes he drew from the strings. Sometimes he explained what they meant, his words running along in monotone that yet kept time ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... man listened, and looked at Constans indifferently. Then he spoke in the inflectionless monotone of extreme old age: ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... splendor. Region of bubbling caldron and boiling pool with fretted rims, rivaling the coral in delicacy of texture and the rainbow in variety of color; of steaming funnels exhaling into the etherine atmosphere in calm, unruffled monotone and paroxysmal ejection, vast clouds of fleecy vapor from the underground furnaces of the God of Nature; sylvan parkland, where amidst the unsullied freshness of flower-strewn valley and bountiful woodland, the native fauna of the land browse in fearless joy ...

— My Native Land • James Cox

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