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Definition
the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something — especially of something said or writtenSee a comprehensive dictionary for the many other common and less common meanings of tone including:
- a quality of sound, music, or voice
- a quality of color
- a quality of muscles seen after exercise, or the act of exercising to create that quality
- signals from a telephone
The expression "tone down", means to make something less forceful.
- Which of the following words best maintains the tone established in this passage.
tone = general feeling
- Would you describe the author's tone as more optimistic or more pessimistic?
- The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- HATHORNE, with a mystical tone: God be praised!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- To the average person, Celeste's tone probably sounded sincere, but I could see through it.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- If he'd recognized the offended tone in Liesel's voice, he certainly wasn't showing it.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- "You were down at the bottom, weren't you?" he asked, not in the official courtroom tone he had used before, but in a friend's voice.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- Mrs. Merriweather was one of those childless adults who find it necessary to assume a different tone of voice when speaking to children.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- His tone conveyed a warning, given out of the pride of ownership, and the boys ate faster while there was still time.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- "Not for long," said Hermione in a satisfied tone.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- "Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours."Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- "I suppose you do it to keep your figure," he added in a mocking tone.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Something in the tone of his voice seemed to add, 'that bloody fool'.George Orwell -- 1984
- It's the same question he asked Amanda, but this time his tone is sincere.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- She thought of the elementary school, just a mile away, the order there and the ordinariness, and she thought of Kay Marshall's disapproving tone, and yet she kept going.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- "That's the greaser that jockeys for the Slash J sometime," she said, as if we couldn't hear her. I had heard the same tone a million times: "Greaser... greaser... greaser."S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- He wasn't including himself in this question: his tone was one of detached but not very strong interest, as if he were conducting a survey of people's less attractive personal habits, such as nose-picking.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Although the tone of the journal, written in the third person in a stilted, self-consciousness voice, often veers toward melodrama, the available evidence indicates that McCandless did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- The fuzz changed his tone.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- I was stunned at this suddenly serious tone she was using with me.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
tone = general feeling or attitude
tone = general feeling, mood, or attitude
tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or attitude
tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude
tone = general feeling, mood, or attitude
tone = quality of voice expressing an attitude
tone = pitch (sound of voice) that expressed an attitude or feeling
tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude
tone = general feeling, mood, or attitude of something
tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude
tone = quality of voice expressing an attitude
tone = quality of voice expressing an attitude
tone = general attitude
tone = the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something
tone = attitude expressed in the sound of the voice
tone = general feeling expressed
tone = general feeling or mood
tone = attitude
tone = the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something
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