monotone
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an unchanging intonation
Types & categories
- intonation hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Related & opposite
- nonmonotonic antonym
- mathematics domain topic
- decreasing monotonic similar to
- increasing monotonic similar to
Sense 3 noun
a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
Types & categories
- musical note hypernym
Related & opposite
- monotone derivation
Sense 4 adjective
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
the owl's faint monotonous hooting
Related & opposite
- flatness derivation
- monotone derivation
- monotone derivation
- unmodulated similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | drone on |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | drone |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | intonation |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | nonmonotonic |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | mathematics |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | decreasing monotonic |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | increasing monotonic |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical note |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flatness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | unmodulated |