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monotone

adjective noun

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

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Word Facts

Word length
8
Starts with
M
Ends with
E
Contains
ON
Scrabble score
10
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈmɒ.nə.təʊn

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Meaning

Definitions

adjective

  1. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

    “the owl's faint monotonous hooting”

adjective

  1. of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

noun

  1. an unchanging intonation

noun

  1. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

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Example Sentences

the owl's faint monotonous hooting

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