broad vs monotone

broad

• Free; unrestrained; unconfined. 

• General rather than specific. 

• Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 

• Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 

• Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained. 

• Unsubtle; obvious. 

• Plain; evident. 

• Strongly regional. 

• Wide in extent or scope. 

• Velarized, i.e. not palatalized. 

• A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. 

• A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. 

• A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. 

• A kind of floodlight. 

monotone

• Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function. 

• Having a single unvaried pitch. 

• A piece of writing in one strain throughout. 

• A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. 

• To speak in a monotone.