monotone: Meaning and Definition of

mon•o•tone

1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
2. a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone.
4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, esp. in singing.
5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.

1. monotonous.
2. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color:Cf.(defs. 1, 2). a monotone drape.
3. monotonic (def. 2).