flat tone
No vocal inflection
A flat tone is a voice lacking variation in pitch or emotion—monotonous and unexpressive.
Someone speaking in a flat tone sounds detached, bored, or deliberately neutral: She delivered the news in a flat tone.
The flatness may signal suppressed feeling or genuine indifference.
- deadpanExpressionless, especially for humor
- poker faceIntentionally expressionless look
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- dullLacking edge or interest
- blandLacking distinctive qualities
lifeless · matter of fact · neutral · droning · uninflected · even · level · colorless · affect · robotic · dry · emotionless · voice · pitch · speaking · reading aloud · boring · delivery
- passive-aggressive responseswhatever, fine, okay, sure, eye roll
- pitch problemswild pitch, balk, off key, sharp note, rejection
- Pinyinpinyin, initials, finals, syllables, romanization
- prosodyscansion, meter, foot, stress pattern, metrics
vocal expressiveness
flat tonesing-song voice
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