monotone — meaning in English
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English meaning
- even adj Flat, level, or smooth.
- humdrum adjective Dull, monotonous, and lacking excitement.
- monotone adj Unvarying in pitch or tone; flat and unchanging in sound.
- 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.
Senses
monotone is used for these senses in English:
- even Without great variation.
- humdrum Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
- monotone (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
- monotonic (mathematics) Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
- unprepossessing Unimpressive or unremarkable; dull and ordinary; nondescript.
even — full definition
- adj Flat, level, or smooth.
- adj Equal or balanced; showing no strong variation.
- adj Of a number, exactly divisible by two.
- adv Used to emphasize something surprising or extreme.
- verb To make level, equal, or balanced.