Toneless
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Lacking tone or expression.
"And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]"
- 2 Lacking vitality; listless; lifeless.
- 3 Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.
- 1 lacking in tone or expression wordnet
Example
More examples"And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]"
Etymology
From tone + -less.
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