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Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tone

5 senses of tone

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
tone, inflect, modulate -- (vary the pitch of one's speech)
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")

Sense 3
tone -- (change the color or tone of; "tone a negative")
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")

Sense 4
tone -- (change to a color image; "tone a photographic image")
       => color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in -- (add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film")

Sense 5
tone, tone up, strengthen -- (give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles")
       => exercise, work out -- (do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day")

Antonyms of adj toned

2 senses of toned

Sense 1
toned -- (having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "shrill-toned"; "deep-toned")

INDIRECT (VIA tonal) -> atonal, unkeyed -- (characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality)

Sense 2
toned (vs. toneless) -- (having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "silver-toned")

toneless (vs. toned) -- (lacking in tone or expression; "his toneless mechanical voice")

Similarity of adj toned

2 senses of toned

Sense 1
toned -- (having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "shrill-toned"; "deep-toned")
       => tonal (vs. atonal) -- (having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic)

Sense 2
toned (vs. toneless) -- (having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "silver-toned")


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