Tritoned

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a tritone. not-comparable

    "Scarcely a score of years after the passing of the Prince of Music, in spite of so many authoritative fillips on the ear, the chromatic cat came back with all its slurred miauling and was heard once more on the musical stage, this time puffed up in an array of hysteric sounds of augmented, diminished, tritoned and disconnected “daring skips”, forsooth a veritable harlequin exhibition of variegated disharmonies."

  2. 2
    Having three tones. not-comparable

    "JamesTen, wearing tritoned Saturn Student Sneakers and a rakish Ruffalo pseudodacron UCLA Youth Shirt, adjusted his heavy pseudospecs and entered the shoddy plastic building housing E.T.T.T.P.U."

Example

More examples

"Scarcely a score of years after the passing of the Prince of Music, in spite of so many authoritative fillips on the ear, the chromatic cat came back with all its slurred miauling and was heard once more on the musical stage, this time puffed up in an array of hysteric sounds of augmented, diminished, tritoned and disconnected “daring skips”, forsooth a veritable harlequin exhibition of variegated disharmonies."

Etymology

From tri- + toned.

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