1. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
   "the owl's faint monotone hooting";
   - flat, monotonic, monotonous
    
2. (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
   "The monotone sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is always increasing";
   - monotonic, monotonous

1. An unchanging intonation
   "The professor's monotone put half the class to sleep";
   - drone [informal], droning
    
2. A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
   "The priest chanted the prayer in a solemn monotone"

Derived forms: monotones

See also: decreasing monotonic, increasing monotonic, unmodulated

Type of: cadence, intonation, modulation, musical note, note, pitch contour, tone

Antonym: nonmonotonic

Encyclopedia: Monotone