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Definition

meaning that is implied or implicit, but not stated

More rarely, overtone can refer to a subtle quality as in a "white pearls with a blue overtone." In music, overtone references a harmonic frequency that is an even multiple of another frequency.

overtones of despair

a political overtone to her scientific analysis
The tyrannosaur roared again, but this time it had distinct musical overtones, and a kind of echo, persisting afterward.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
An element of indifference is the ultimate overtone.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
His behavior carried ominous overtones.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Panov had agreed to provide the appropriate psychiatric terminology with the correct Washington overtones.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
The words, which carried such lyrical and mythological and dramatic overtones, were real and actual—their hearer repeated them to me.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
Put together all the right overtones at the right power levels so it'd come out like a violin.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
And as his mother bent down to kiss him— "Keep out of mischief," the barest overtone hardened his father's voice.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
The departure of six carloads of lettuce packed in ice was given a civic overtone.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Open crates, and overtones of urine.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I can imagine a scenario where Salander and the Chinese girl are running some sort of escort service with SM overtones.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
But she says this with such flirtatious overtones that I can hardly wait to return to the past.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
I even pitched my voice to a low plane, trying to rob it of any suggestion or overtone of aggressiveness.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Then the thought came to me, with dark, more than informational overtones to it: there is a dolphin skeleton in the next room.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
Fainter traces came to his nose as the overtones of a bell sound in a trained ear.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
It was a thick voice, with something in it—a kind of whistling overtone—that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
One of my purposes was to listen, to hear speech, accent, speech rhythms, overtones, and emphasis.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

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