monotonic UK /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/US /ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪk/ adjective3 •Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.The Same Spade talk-alike, super-cynical heroine of the piece is named Emma Victor, and there's no end to her rapid-fire, monotonic, street-smart patter. — 1988 •Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases. •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.