Scrabble & Words with friends points
- tone is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 4
- tone is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 4
- tone is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 5
Definition of tone
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color (noun)
Synonyms
- shade
- tincture
- tint
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli (noun)
Synonyms
- tonicity
- tonus
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people (noun)
Examples
- a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
Synonyms
- feel
- feeling
- flavor
- flavour
- look
- smell
- spirit
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound (noun)
Synonyms
- musical note
- note
- give a healthy elasticity to (verb)
Examples
- Let's tone our muscles
Synonyms
- strengthen
- tone up
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) (noun)
Examples
- the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
Synonyms
- quality
- timber
- timbre
- a musical interval of two semitones (noun)
Synonyms
- step
- whole step
- whole tone
- the quality of a person's voice (noun)
Examples
- he began in a conversational tone
- he spoke in a nervous tone of voice
Synonyms
- tone of voice
- vary the pitch of one's speech (verb)
Synonyms
- inflect
- modulate
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically (verb)
Synonyms
- chant
- intone
- a steady sound without overtones (noun)
Examples
- they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies
Synonyms
- pure tone
- change the color or tone of (verb)
Examples
- tone a negative
- change to a color image (verb)
Examples
- tone a photographic image
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages (noun)
Examples
- the Beijing dialect uses four tones
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author (noun)
Examples
- the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw
- from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome
See definition of tone in Merriam Webster