tone - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

Synonyms

• shade
• tincture
• tint
• tone

More generic

• color
• coloring
• colour
• colouring

More specific

• mellowness
• richness
• tinge
• undertone

Noun

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages

Synonyms

• tone

More generic

• pitch

Noun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

Synonyms

• quality
• timber
• timbre
• tone

More generic

• sound property

More specific

• color
• coloration
• colour
• colouration
• harmonic
• nasality
• plangency
• register
• resonance
• reverberance
• ringing
• shrillness
• sonority
• sonorousness
• stridence
• stridency
• vibrancy

Noun

the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author

Synonyms

• tone

More generic

• quality

Noun

a steady sound without overtones

Synonyms

• pure tone
• tone

More generic

• auditory sensation
• sound

More specific

• harmonic

Noun

a musical interval of two semitones

Synonyms

• step
• tone
• whole step
• whole tone

More generic

• interval
• musical interval

Noun

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Synonyms

• musical note
• note
• tone

More generic

• musical notation

More specific

• acciaccatura
• appoggiatura
• blue note
• chord
• crotchet
• demisemiquaver
• dominant
• eighth note
• grace note
• half note
• hemidemisemiquaver
• keynote
• leading tone
• mediant
• middle C
• minim
• monotone
• passing note
• passing tone
• pedal
• pedal point
• quarter note
• quaver
• semibreve
• semiquaver
• shake
• sixteenth note
• sixty-fourth note
• subdominant
• submediant
• subtonic
• supertonic
• thirty-second note
• tonic
• trill
• whole note

Related

• musical scale
• scale

Noun

the quality of a person's voice

Synonyms

• tone
• tone of voice

More generic

• delivery
• manner of speaking
• speech

More specific

• note
• rotundity
• roundness
• undertone

Noun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Synonyms

• feel
• feeling
• flavor
• flavour
• look
• smell
• spirit
• tone

More generic

• ambiance
• ambience
• atmosphere

More specific

• Hollywood
• Zeitgeist

Noun

the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

Synonyms

• tone
• tonicity
• tonus

More generic

• tautness
• tenseness
• tension
• tensity

More specific

• catatonia
• hypertonia
• hypertonicity
• hypertonus
• hypotonia
• hypotonicity
• hypotonus
• muscle tone
• muscular tonus
• myotonia

Verb

give a healthy elasticity to

Synonyms

• strengthen
• tone
• tone up

More generic

• exercise
• work out

Verb

change to a color image

Synonyms

• tone

More generic

• color
• color in
• colorise
• colorize
• colour
• colour in
• colourise
• colourize

Verb

change the color or tone of

Synonyms

• tone

More generic

• color
• colour
• discolor
• discolour

Verb

vary the pitch of one's speech

Synonyms

• inflect
• modulate
• tone

More generic

• mouth
• speak
• talk
• utter
• verbalise
• verbalize

Verb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

Synonyms

• chant
• intone
• tone

More generic

• mouth
• speak
• talk
• utter
• verbalise
• verbalize

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