Irksome vs Monotone - What's the difference?
irksome | monotone |
Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious.
(of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch
* 1940 , Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society , page 95:
* 1998 , Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business'', Georgetown University Press, ''Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings , page 76:
(mathematics) property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing
* The function is monotone while is not.
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
* 1799 , John Walker, Elements of Elocution , Cooper and Wilson, page 309:
(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.
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As adjectives the difference between irksome and monotone
is that irksome is disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious while monotone is (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch.As a noun monotone is
a single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.As a verb monotone is
(ambitransitive) to speak in a monotone.irksome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.
Anagrams
*monotone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone , business-like quality.
Noun
(en noun)- When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
- It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at fir?t in a low monotone'; a ' monotone , though in a low key, and without force, is much more ?onorous and audible than when the voice ?lides up and down at almo?t every word, as it mu?t do to be various.
