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monotono — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dull adj Boring; lacking interest or excitement.
  • flat adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
  • 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

monotono is used for these senses in English:

  • dull Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • flat (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
  • 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.
  • monotonous Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
  • monotonous Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

dull — full definition

  1. adj Boring; lacking interest or excitement.
  2. adj Not sharp; unable to cut easily.
  3. adj Lacking shine or brightness; not vivid.
  4. adj Slow to understand; not sharp-witted.
  5. verb To make or become less sharp, bright, or intense.

flat — full definition

  1. adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
  2. adj Unchanging or without variation, especially in sales, tone, or energy.
  3. adj Of a tyre, deflated, usually because of a puncture.
  4. adj Of a drink, having lost its fizz.
  5. adj In music, lower in pitch than the correct note, or (of a written note) lowered by a semitone.

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