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• n  an unchanging intonation
• n  a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
• a  of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
• s  sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

• In a soothing monotone, he highlights the scariest hairpin turns on his itinerary, the ones that combine difficulty with danger plus a jolt of existential risk.
• The 32-year-old welder wore his hair slicked in a bygone style and sometimes stammered as he spoke in a flat monotone about prophets and the trials sent by God to test him.
• Singing in an Auto-Tuned monotone with little regard for melody, West sounds ghostly as he recounts his romantic failures in brutal detail.

• drone
• droning
• monotonic
• flat
• monotonous

• nonmonotonic

News & Articles

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• Ciara Shows Some Leg In ‘FADER’ Magazine’s June/July 2013 Issue
  FADER Magazine tapped two of the hottest artists out right now for their 'Summer Music' issue, Ciara and Haim. The 27-year-old "Body Party" singer posed for the music magazine in all monotone, lightweight pieces. ... More »
  June 14, 2013 - The Atlanta Post

Quotes

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• Hugh Laurie in Stuff.co.nz
  Hugh added to Britain's Radio Times magazine: "I don't watch regularly. I avert my eyes when my children have it on. I hate seeing myself, but it's even worse hearing my American accent. I had no idea I sound so retarded, a dull monotone, full of...
• Mike Gundy in Kansas City Star
  The only thing is that my volume level, as it went on, increased,Gundy said. "My anger grew. If I had to do it all over again : I would have kept it to a monotone level."
• Alexander Graham Bell in The Boundary Sentinel
  Her tone of voice was very monotone - there wasn'ta lot of feeling behind that,said Bell. "Her voice sounded like someone who was depressed. It sounded down. Her facial expression did not change."