tone

tone is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
2. noun. Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
3. noun. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
4. noun. A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
5. noun. The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
6. noun. The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
7. noun. A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
8. noun. That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
9. noun. Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
10. noun. State of mind; temper; mood.
11. noun. Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
12. noun. General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
13. noun. The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
14. transitive verb. To utter with an affected tone.
15. transitive verb. To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
16. transitive verb. To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
17. noun. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

    "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

    Synonyms: shade, tincture, tint

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

    "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

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

    "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"

    "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

    Synonyms: quality, timber, timbre

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

    "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"

    "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"

21. noun. a steady sound without overtones

    "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"

22. noun. a musical interval of two semitones

    Synonyms: step

23. noun. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

    "the singer held the note too long"

    Synonyms: note

24. noun. the quality of a person's voice

    "he began in a conversational tone"

    "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"

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

    "the feel of the city excited him"

    "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"

    Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit

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

    "the doctor tested my tonicity"

    Synonyms: tonicity, tonus

27. verb. give a healthy elasticity to

    "Let's tone our muscles"

    Synonyms: strengthen

28. verb. change to a color image

    "tone a photographic image"

29. verb. change the color or tone of

    "tone a negative"

30. verb. vary the pitch of one's speech

    Synonyms: inflect, modulate

31. verb. utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

    "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"

    Synonyms: chant, intone

Synonyms

shade, tincture, tint, quality, timber, timbre, step, note, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tonicity, tonus, strengthen, inflect, modulate, chant, intone

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tone:

eton, note

Common word forms

toned, toner, tones, toning, toneless

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