Dictionary![]() ![]() mon•o•tonePronunciation: (mon'u-tōn"), [key] —n. 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, esp. in singing. 5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree. —adj. 1. monotonous. 2. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape. Cf. monochromatic (defs. 1, 2). 3. Math.monotonic (def. 2). Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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