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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

... last the two had the deck to themselves and Manhattan had become a shadowy and ragged monotone, she turned and smiled. It was a smile of accepting the inevitable. He went with her to the forward deck where her staterooms were situated, and left her there ...

— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... vestments of the shops, banks, and offices, illustrating the difference between a state of society in which apparel is regarded as an incident in life, and one rising to the height of realizing its true significance as a religion. Mr. Barr-Smith bowed not the knee to the Baal of western clothes-monotone, but daily sent out his sartorial orisons, keeping his windows open toward the Jerusalem of his London tailor, in a manner which would ...

— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... in silence through the window at the blinking lights in Washington, turned and looked moodily at his calm host. He spoke in a slow, dreamy monotone, his ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... somebody remarked on the silence. I will always remember how, for some inexplicable reason, that remark annoyed me immensely—made me nervous and angry. Perhaps it was that after weeks of rifle-fire and cannon booming, the colourless monotone of complete silence was nerve-destroying. Yes, it must have been that; a perpetual, aggravating, insolent silence is worse than noise.... But this will mean nothing to you; ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... slip into their neighborhood for a gulp or two at their fountains of culture. Some day, naturally, we'll be more alike, and have more in common. The stronger colors will fade out of the newer fabric and we'll merge into a more inoffensive monotone of respectability. Our Navajo-blanket audacities will tone down to wall-tapestry sedateness—but not too, too soon, I pray ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

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