intonate

intonate is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To thunder. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To thunder.
2. intransitive verb. To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.
3. intransitive verb. To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.
4. transitive verb. To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.
5. verb. recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

   "The rabbi chanted a prayer"

   Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone

6. verb. speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone

   "please intonate with sadness"

   Synonyms: intone

Synonyms

cantillate, chant, intone

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in intonate:

totanine

Common word forms

intonated, intonates, intonating

Words from these letters

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