Synonyms and Antonyms for tone
1. tone (n.)
the quality of a person's voice
2. tone (n.)
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
3. tone (n.)
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
6. tone (n.)
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- chord
- crotchet
- supertonic
- subtonic
- grace note
- thirty-second note
- shake
- passing tone
- musical notation
- scale
- sixty-fourth note
- trill
- minim
- keynote
- quaver
- semibreve
- note
- whole note
- pedal point
- eighth note
- tonic
- dominant
- middle C
- monotone
- submediant
- mediant
- acciaccatura
- blue note
- musical scale
- demisemiquaver
- appoggiatura
- pedal
- musical note
- quarter note
- sixteenth note
- half note
- leading tone
- semiquaver
- passing note
- hemidemisemiquaver
- subdominant
7. tone (n.)
a steady sound without overtones
9. tone (v.)
give a healthy elasticity to
10. tone (n.)
a musical interval of two semitones
