monotone

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mon=o=tone

CIDE DICTIONARY

monotone, n. [See Monotonous, Monotony.].

•  A single unvaried tone or sound.  [1913 Webster]
•  The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

monotone, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a sound or utterance continuing or repeated on one note without change of pitch.
2 sameness of style in writing.
--adj. without change of pitch.

Etymology

mod.L monotonus f. late Gk monotonos (as MONO-, TONE)

THESAURUS

monotone

AF, Indian file, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, array, articulation, assonance, assonant, audio frequency, banausic, bank, belabored, blah, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, concatenation, connection, consecution, constancy, continuum, course, cycle, daily round, descent, dim, dingdong, dreary, drone, droning, endless belt, endless round, even pace, even tenor, file, filiation, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, gamut, gradation, harmonic, harping, hum, humdrum, intonation, invariability, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, line, lineage, monologue, monotonic, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, nexus, orderliness, overtone, partial, partial tone, pedestrian, pendulum, periodicity, pitch, pitter-patter, plenum, poky, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, rotation, round, routine, row, run, sameliness, sameness, scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, soniferous, sonorous, sounded, sounding, spectrum, stale repetition, stodgy, string, succession, swath, tedious, tedium, thread, tier, tonal, tone, toneless, tonelessness, train, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, unnecessary repetition, unvariation, windrow