: unvarying in tone or emphasis : monotonous
a one-note campaigner

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All of which is to say the one-take can get a little one-note. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 Otherwise, even their considerable charms struggle to sustain a one-note waiting game. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 Balance is key, though, to preventing a room from looking one-note. Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025 The director isn’t the kind to tell a one-note sci-fi story; his previous genre efforts, such as 2013’s Snowpiercer and 2017’s Okja, work well because of their elasticity, juggling the comedic with the macabre, the absurd with the serious. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for one-note

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First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of one-note was in 1956

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“One-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-note. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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