monotone
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
monotone
adj 1: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and
never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never
increasing in value [syn: {monotonic}, {monotone}] [ant:
{nonmonotonic}]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {flat}, {monotone},
{monotonic}, {monotonous}]
n 1: an unchanging intonation [syn: {monotone}, {drone},
{droning}]
2: a single tone repeated with different words or different
rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "monotone":
AF, Indian file, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, array,
articulation, assonance, assonant, audio frequency, banausic, bank,
belabored, blah, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction,
chaining, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden,
clockwork regularity, concatenation, connection, consecution,
constancy, continuum, course, cycle, daily round, descent, dim,
dingdong, dreary, drone, droning, endless belt, endless round,
even pace, even tenor, file, filiation, frequency, fundamental,
fundamental tone, gamut, gradation, harmonic, harping, hum,
humdrum, intonation, invariability, jingle, jingle-jangle,
jog-trot, labored, line, lineage, monologue, monotonic, monotonous,
monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, nexus, orderliness, overtone,
partial, partial tone, pedestrian, pendulum, periodicity, pitch,
pitter-patter, plenum, poky, powder train, progression, queue,
range, rank, recurrence, regularity, repeated sounds,
repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation, rhyme, rhymed,
rhyming, rotation, round, routine, row, run, sameliness, sameness,
scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong, slant rhyme,
smoothness, soniferous, sonorous, sounded, sounding, spectrum,
stale repetition, stodgy, string, succession, swath, tedious,
tedium, thread, tier, tonal, tone, toneless, tonelessness, train,
treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation,
unnecessary repetition, unvariation, windrow
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