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Adjective monotone has 2 senses

monotonic, monotone - of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
monotone, monotonic, monotonous - sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
Antonyms: melodious, melodic, musical (indirect, via unmelodious)

Noun monotone has 2 senses

monotone, drone, droning - an unchanging intonation
--₁ is a kind of intonation, modulation, pitch contour
monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
--₂ is a kind of note, musical note, tone