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

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Other figures in the story remain one-note, though the actors all do their best. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025 But the series also admired Hank’s positive attributes — his work ethic, his fundamental decency — never reducing him to a one-note stereotype. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025 There’s a sameness there that the series’s compressed adaptation of its source material only exacerbates, and that makes Dream’s one-note development feel thin and self-congratulatory. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2025 Balance is key, though, to preventing a room from looking one-note. Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 2 July 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 28 Aug. 2025.

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