Synonyms of the word

monotone

• adj. (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch.
• adj. (mathematics) of a function: having the property of either always decreasing or always increasing.
• n. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak in a monotone.

drone

• n. A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
• n. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
• n. One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
• n. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
• v. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
• v. To speak in a monotone way.
• n. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
• n. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
• n. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
• n. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

droning

• v. present participle of drone.
• n. A dull humming.

flat

• adj. Having no variations in height.
• adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
• adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
• adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
• adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
• adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
• adj. Uninteresting.
• adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
• adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
• adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
• adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
• adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
• adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
• adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
• adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
• adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
• adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
• adv. So as to be flat.
• adv. Bluntly.
• adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
• adv. Completely.
• adv. Directly; flatly.
• adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
• n. An area of level ground.
• n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
• n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
• n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
• n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
• n. The flat part of something.
• n. A wide, shallow container.
• n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
• n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
• n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
• n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
• n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
• n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
• n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
• n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
• n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
• v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
• v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
• v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
• v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

intonation

• n. (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
• n. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
• n. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
• n. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm,…
• n. A thundering; thunder.

modulation

• n. The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.
• n. The variation and regulation of a population, physiological response, etc.

monotonic

• adj. of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to…
• adj. (mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable…
• adj. Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

monotonous

• adj. Having an unvarying tone or pitch.
• adj. Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

tone

• n. (music) A specific pitch.
• n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
• n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
• n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
• n. General character, mood, or trend.
• n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
• n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
• n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
• n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
• n. The shade or quality of a colour.
• n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
• n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
• n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
• n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
• v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
• v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
• v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
• v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
• v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
• pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

unmodulated

• adj. Not modulated.