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monotone
adjective
noun
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
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ˈmɒ.nə.təʊn
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adjective
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
“The owl's faint monotonous hooting”
adjective
Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
noun
An unchanging intonation
noun
A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
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The owl's faint monotonous hooting
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