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How to pronounce monotone in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms drone, droning
Type of modulation, pitch contour, intonation
Derivation monotonic
Type Words
Synonyms monotonic
Type Words
Synonyms flat, monotonic, monotonous
Type Words
Type of note, musical note, tone
Derivation monotonic

Examples of monotone

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You can hear this in his voice, which is more of a monotone than it used to be.
From the kentucky.com
Speaking in an unruffled monotone, Sir Eric chaired the six-hour Toronto meeting.
From the time.com
Monotone clothing or garments with geometric patterns are also proving popular.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Arial Unicode MS uses monotone stroke widths on Arabic glyphs, similar to Tahoma.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He spoke in his usual monotone voice as Nantz asked a few obligatory questions.
From the sltrib.com
It is easy to see that the composite of two monotone mappings is also monotone.
From the en.wikipedia.org
His speech had been censored by the military, and he read it off in a monotone.
From the time.com
Parents worried their children's classrooms would become monotone and austere.
From the stltoday.com
The problem, they say, is her tendency to lecture audiences in a dry monotone.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • An unchanging intonation
  • Monotonic: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
  • A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
  • Flat: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
  • Monotone is an open source software tool for distributed revision control. Monotone tracks revisions to files, groups sets of revisions into changesets, and tracks history across renames.
  • The Monotones were a six-member African American doo-wop vocal group in the 1950s. They are considered a one-hit wonder, as their only hit single was "The Book of Love", which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1958.
  • A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound; To speak in a monotone; having a single unvaried pitch; property of a function to be either decreasing or increasing
  • With respect to a given line L, if every line orthogonal to L intersects the polygon not more than twice.
  • A print produced in one color.