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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

... without was eager and sharp; Of Sir Launfal's gray hair it makes a harp, And rattles and wrings The icy strings, Singing in dreary monotone A Christmas carol of its own, Whose burden still, as he might guess, Was "Shelterless, ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... his speech with this terrible emphasis, he started into an upright attitude, and listened with all his ears for another utterance of that harsh monotone that, borne upon the breeze and rising above the "sough" of the disturbed water, could easily be distinguished as ...

— The Ocean Waifs - A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea • Mayne Reid

... throaty monotone. As he spoke he glanced about slyly, suspecting, perhaps, the watchfulness of the fancies ...

— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp

... tormentress who had somehow succeeded in calling him back into the dimly lighted room from the shadows of Lethe's alluring banks. Miss Beaver, kneeling beside young Frank's bed, talked tenderly to him in a soft monotone. She made all manner of gratuitous promises, if only Frank would try like a good boy to get well. She told him firmly that he could, if he wanted to. She made her suggestions with gently persuasive ...

— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina

... immediately before the service began. Her conversation was usually directed to another woman, who, likewise, should have known better than to listen. The silent vault of the church roof echoed to the vigorous whispering up to the instant that the clergyman began, in low monotone, "The Lord is in His holy temple"—a fact which the whisperer had obviously forgotten—"let all the earth keep silence before Him"—an injunction which she never seemed to be able to remember ...

— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton

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