Monotonous vs. Monotone — What's the Difference?

Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone

A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety.

A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.

Having an unvarying pitch or tone.

A chant in a single tone.

Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.

Characterized by or uttered in a monotone

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;

Of or having a single color

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;

Also mon·o·ton·ic (mŏn′ə-tŏnĭk) Mathematics Designating sequences, the successive members of which either consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative value. Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.

(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

(mathematics) Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.

A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.

A piece of writing in one strain throughout.

(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

A single unvaried tone or sound.

The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

An unchanging intonation

A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;