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Tonal

//ˈtoʊnəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  2. 2
    Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.

    "The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people."

  3. 3
    Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  4. 4
    Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
Adjective
  1. 1
    having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic wordnet
  2. 2
    employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.

    "When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From tone + -al.

Etymology 2

From Nahuatl tōnalli (“day, day sign”).

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