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Definition of Toneless
1. Adjective. Lacking in tone or expression. "His toneless mechanical voice"
Definition of Toneless
1. a. Having no tone; unmusical.
Definition of Toneless
1. Adjective. lacking tone or expression ¹
2. Adjective. lacking vitality; listless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toneless
1. lacking in tone [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toneless
Literary usage of Toneless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New High German: A Comparative Study by William Winston Valentine (1894)
"Poets often make these syllables toneless. The secondary tone rests :—(It) upon
the principal ... 1'Jl. toneless syllables are found :—(«) with Inflection, ..."
2. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"... could bid rejoice That broken, cheerless, toneless lute, my heart; But when
I knew thee, and could see enshrined, Within that shape of loveliness, ..."
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