Monotonous vs. Monotonic

Monotonous vs. Monotonic — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Monotonous and Monotonic

Monotonousadjective

Having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Monotonicadjective

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.

Monotonousadjective

Tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.

Monotonicadjective

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

Monotonousadjective

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;

the owl's faint monotonous hooting

Monotonicadjective

Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

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Monotonousadjective

tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;

a humdrum existence; all work and no playnothing is so monotonous as the sea

Monotonicadjective

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

Monotonicadjective

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;

the owl's faint monotonous hooting