Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking tone.
- adjective Lacking vitality; listless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without tone; unmodulated; unaccentuated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no tone; unmusical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking
tone orexpression - adjective lacking
vitality ;listless
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking in tone or expression
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Examples
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Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices.
Monday or Tuesday 1921
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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].
The Download Blog: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors Stephen Shankland 2011
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It's as if his music has become toneless—who will listen to it now?
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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Certainly these toneless events were entertaining.
Justina McCaffrey: What Two Disheveled Teens Taught Me About Marriage Justina McCaffrey 2012
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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.
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It's as if his music has become toneless—who will listen to it now?
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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Certainly these toneless events were entertaining.
Justina McCaffrey: What Two Disheveled Teens Taught Me About Marriage Justina McCaffrey 2012
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In a toneless voice, he asked, “Where did you get that?”
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Up here at Gillette Stadium, the Patriots are cool, flat with their emotion and toneless in their public moments.
So What Makes Belichick Great? Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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In a toneless voice, he asked, “Where did you get that?”
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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