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monotoon — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • monotonic adj Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
  • monotonous adj Tediously repetitive or lacking variety.
  • tedious adj Boring and drawn out, especially because it takes a long time or is repetitive.

Senses

monotoon is used for these senses in English:

  • monotonous Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
  • monotonous Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

monotonic — full definition

  1. adj Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
  2. adj Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
  3. adj Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

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