Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb intone
3 senses of intone
Sense 1
tone, chant, intone -- (utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again")
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")
Sense 2
chant, intone, intonate, cantillate -- (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer")
=> sing -- (produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well")
Sense 3
intonate, intone -- (speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness")
=> pronounce, label, judge -- (pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here")
Antonyms of adj intoned
1 sense of intoned
Sense 1
chantlike, intoned, singsong -- (uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking")
INDIRECT (VIA rhythmical) -> unrhythmical, unrhythmic -- (not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent)
Similarity of adj intoned
1 sense of intoned
Sense 1
chantlike, intoned, singsong -- (uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking")
=> rhythmical (vs. unrhythmical), rhythmic -- (recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose")