toneless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking tone or expression.
adj
Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.
Example Sentences
- "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,’ […]"
- "The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain."
Etymology
Etymology tree English tone Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English toneless From tone + -less.
Inflected Forms
more toneless (comparative)
most toneless (superlative)