one-note
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.03 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having only one opinion, outlook, tone, etc., especially as expressed repetitively; without variety or range.
Example Sentences
- "But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing."
- "The footnotes that attend Ambrose Bierce in the U.S. literary canon roughly place him as a minor writer of grotesque supernatural tales and trenchant war stories, a misanthrope, curmudgeon, a purveyor of stringing sarcasms, a one-note wit."
- "To his mind, there was only one right and true position on the question. This sort of one-note response is precisely the problem facing politically engaged academics in the U.S. at the moment."
- "The movie is one long snigger. […] It might be one-note, but at least it's in the key of funny."
- "Moreover, Drive Angry offers evidence that Cage hasn't recently been one-note in his performances so much as in his choice of schlocky material."