Overtone

/ˈoʊvɚtoʊn/

Synonyms for "overtone" (113 found)

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Closest matches (23)

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extensionfeelfeelingflageolet toneforcefrequencyfundamentalfundamental tonegistgrammatical meaningharmonicharmonic tonehintideaimpactimplicationimplied meaningimportindicationinference
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innuendoinsinuationintensionintimationintonationironic suggestionlexical meaningliteral meaningmeaningmetaphorical sensemilieumonotone
Noun(2 words)

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relevancescopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsenseshadesignificancesignificationsignificatumsignifiespan of meaningspiritstructural meaningsubsensesubsidiary sensesubstancesuggestionsumsum and substancesuppositionsymbolic meaningsymbolismtenortingetonetonelessnesstotality of associationstouchtransferred meaningunadorned meaningundercurrentundermeaningundertonevalue
Noun(2 words)
nuancepartial tone

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Collocations

6 entries
acoustic overtonecultural overtonelinguistic overtonemusical overtoneovertone seriessubtle overtone

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Translations

16 translations across 5 languages.

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French

2 entries
  • connotation noun (implicit meaning)
  • sous-entendu noun (implicit meaning)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • beütés noun (implicit meaning)
  • felhang noun (implicit meaning)
  • mellékzönge noun (implicit meaning)
  • mellékíz noun (implicit meaning)

Polish

2 entries
  • podtekst noun (implicit meaning)
  • wydźwięk noun (implicit meaning)

Russian

4 entries
  • намёк noun (implicit meaning)
  • но́тка noun (implicit meaning)
  • оберто́н noun (implicit meaning)
  • подте́кст noun (implicit meaning)

Spanish

3 entries
  • connotación noun (implicit meaning)
  • implicación noun (implicit meaning)
  • sobreentendido noun (implicit meaning)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.

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The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three [Marine Le Pen] had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's [Jean-Marie Le Pen's] convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".

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It has already been established that the crew was competent and qualified for operation of AS66. With the exception of some overtones of irritation about the manner in which another aircraft, N799Y, affected the flight's progress into the Juneau area, the recorded cockpit conversation, in general, reflects a relaxed but businesslike atmosphere.

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The flesh tints appear to have been darkened by being overworked; the draperies are overtoned in the same way […]

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