Monotonous vs. Monotonic — What's the Difference?

Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone

(of a function or quantity) varying in such a way that it either never decreases or never increases.

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety.

Speaking or uttered with an unchanging pitch or tone

Having an unvarying pitch or tone.

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

Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

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

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

A chant in a single tone.

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;

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

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;

Characterized by or uttered in a monotone

Of or having a single color

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 or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.

(mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.

Always increasing or always decreasing, as the value of the independent variable increases; - of a function.

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;