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单词 monotone
释义
monotone
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nadj

Monotone is a droning, unchanging tone. Nothing can put you to sleep quite as effectively as a teacher talking in a monotone.
The Greek word for "one tone" is monotonia, which is the root for both monotone and the closely-related word monotonous, which means "dull and tedious." A continuous sound, especially someone's voice, that doesn't rise and fall in pitch, is a monotone. When someone speaks in a monotone, his voice is flat and boring — plus listeners don't know how the speaker is feeling when everything sounds the same.
WORD FAMILY
monotone: monotones, monotonic+/monotonic: nonmonotonic
USAGE EXAMPLES
I hear it uttered in a shell-shocked monotone, with only the surreal precision of “8:56” keeping a silent scream at bay.
Slate(Dec 21, 2016)
Fisher rarely smiled and his gruff voice was monotone.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016)
“People melt down in a bragging situation, use a monotone, ramble,” she says.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 05, 2016)
1n an unchanging intonation
Syn|Hyper
drone, droning
intonation, modulation, pitch contour
rise and fall of the voice pitch
2n a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
Hyper
musical note, note, tone
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
3adj sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Syn
flat, monotonic, monotonous
unmodulated
characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume
4adj of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Syn|Ant
monotonic
decreasing monotonic
consistently decreasing
increasing monotonic
consistently increasing
nonmonotonic
not monotonic
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