Monotonous vs. Monotonic

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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 hootingMonotonicadjective
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 seaMonotonicadjective
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