Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What is the adjective for toneless?

What's the adjective for toneless? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs tone, tonicize and tonify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tonic
  1. (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
  2. Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
  3. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Gradually the tonic mountain air, the wholesome food, and the daily walks among the hills would alleviate my malady.”
      “The district might, in the course of time, draw more people within its quaint streets and flowery suburbs than the tonic waters of its spas and chalybeates.”
tonal
  1. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  2. (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  3. (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
  4. Synonyms:
toneless
  1. lacking tone or expression.
  2. lacking vitality; listless.
  3. (linguistics) lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The intolerable toneless monologues of the last few auditions made a couple of people go to sleep.”
      “The drawing is rendered in pale toneless colors.”
      “The lead singer has traded his toneless, dark singing style for a scratchy, emotive whisper, and the band's sound is more open and melodic.”
tonified
  1. Highly fashionable or stylish; classy; tony.
  2. (linguistics) relying on tone as a determinant of meaning; tonal.
tonic
  1. (physics) Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
  2. Restorative, curative or invigorating.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Gradually the tonic mountain air, the wholesome food, and the daily walks among the hills would alleviate my malady.”
      “The district might, in the course of time, draw more people within its quaint streets and flowery suburbs than the tonic waters of its spas and chalybeates.”
tonetic
  1. Having to do with intonation.
  2. Having to do with linguistic tones or tonal languages.
tonemic
  1. (linguistics) of, or relating to tonemes or a language that uses tonemes
  2. Examples:
    1. “Because of neutralizing forces of Korean tones mentioned above, the kind of tonemic patters are extremely restricted.”
      “This new research indicates that there may be some sort of tonemic opposition in Haloze.”
tony
tonelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tone.
tonish
  1. (dated) tony; stylish
  2. Examples:
    1. “For the redoubtable tonish, who whilom figured so bravely on the prairies and in print, I made diligent inquiry.”
tonick
  1. Obsolete form of tonic.
toned
tonical
  1. (obsolete) tonic
tonier
  1. comparative form of tony: more tony
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Let the garbage pile up for a couple weeks at single-family homes in tonier parts of town, though, and heads will roll.”
      “He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.”
toniest
  1. superlative form of tony: most tony
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But a few days later he was making overtures to Cora Taylor, the madam of the Hotel de Dream, the city's toniest brothel.”
      “But he also managed to capture the heartlands of the new economy, including California, New York and many of the country's toniest suburbs.”
      “In 1995, Klyce's sister, Emily Klyce Fisher, was brutally slain in her home in one of Memphis' toniest neighborhoods.”
toning
tonicized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of tonicize
tonicizing
  1. present participle of tonicize
tonifying
  1. present participle of tonify
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
8-letter Words Starting With
Find Adjectives
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024