Toneless

Word TONELESS
Character 8
Hyphenation tone less
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Toneless"

What do we mean by toneless?

Lacking tone. adjective

Lacking vitality; listless. adjective

Without tone; unmodulated; unaccentuated.

Having no tone; unmusical. adjective

Lacking tone or expression adjective

Lacking vitality; listless adjective

Lacking in tone or expression adjective

Lacking tone or expression.

Lacking vitality; listless.

Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Toneless

The word "toneless" in example sentences

Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Ghost will be a hybrid tone + noise codec that splits and separately encodes strong sinusoids [sine waves representing pure tones] from the time-domain 'toneless' signal [that's less regular]. ❋ Stephen Shankland (2011)

Certainly these toneless events were entertaining. ❋ Justina McCaffrey (2012)

For 25 years he has hosted the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline — toneless voices of teens, some of whom can barely phrase their distress, calling in with misunderstood gayness or drug queries or parent problems or never-ending boners, each issue calmly and compassionately addressed in the Pinsky baritone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The toneless e-mail after a train had roamed her to a new life too many miles from me. ❋ Roberta Lawson (2011)

It's as if his music has become toneless—who will listen to it now? ❋ Khaliah Williams (2011)

It's a work that requires patience—a kind sturdy enough to endure streams of toneless babble that serve as conversation among the Loud family members aware of cameras grinding away as they eat breakfast, say, or sit in their living room. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

In a toneless voice, he asked, “Where did you get that?” ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Up here at Gillette Stadium, the Patriots are cool, flat with their emotion and toneless in their public moments. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)

“Sorry,” said Nick from the door, his voice toneless. ❋ Sarah Rees Brennan (2010)

Delivering half-baked wisdom in toneless singsong, the character skated uncomfortably close to buck-toothed caricature. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2010)

His voice was quiet, toneless, as if he were berating a disobedient dog. ❋ ERIN HART (2010)

Subtending even the local static of such a network and its inevitable interferences, isolated thereby in the imaginary sonics of phonemic silence (beyond any mechanics of impress), wording goes about its inscriptive work while continuing to reverberate in a toneless undertow not noted by manifest spelling. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But she was indifferent to music, and played in a toneless and flabby manner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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