Meaning of Monotone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
   countable, uncountable
2. A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.”

“It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.”

“There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."”

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