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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'monotone' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions monotone noun  A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound When Tina felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in and act as though she were a robot. adjective  (context, of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch 1799, John Walker, Elements of Elocution, Cooper and Wilson, page 309: : It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firÅ¿t in a low ; a , though in a low key, and without force, is much more Å¿onorous and audible than when the voice Å¿lides up and down at almoÅ¿t every word, as it muÅ¿t do to be various. 1940, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society, page 95: : The prominence of the syllables is more than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables. 1998, Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business, Georgetown University Press, Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings, page 76: : In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more , business-like quality. Translations:  Etymology: From (term, monotony).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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