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Synonyms:
- tone, noise, note, Whole
Examples:
- - Sound is the sensation produced through the organs of hearing or the physical cause of this sensation. Sound is the most comprehensive word of this group, applying to anything that is audible. Tone is sound considered as having some musical quality or as expressive of some feeling; noise is sound considered without reference to musical quality or as distinctly unmusical or discordant. Thus, in the most general sense noise and sound scarcely differ, and we say almost indifferently, " I heard a sound," or " I heard a noise." We speak of a fine, musical, or pleasing sound, but never thus of a noise. In music, tone may denote either a musical sound or the interval between two such sounds, but in the most careful usage the latter is now distinguished as the " interval," leaving tone to stand only for the sound. Note in music strictly denotes the character representing a sound, but in loose popular usage it denotes the sound also, and becomes practically equivalent to tone. Aside from its musical use, tone is chiefly applied to that quality of the human voice by which feeling is expressed; as, he spoke in a cheery tone; the word is similarly applied to the voices of birds and other animals, and sometimes to inanimate objects. As used of a musical instrument, tone denotes the general quality of its sounds collectively considered.
Antonyms:
- diseased, quiet, daffy, unhealthy, thoughtless, irrational, shaky, unrighteous, ailing, illogical, eristic, weakly, decayed, weakened, worn down, emaciated, devoice, high-risk, halt, disabled, rotted, long, ill, fallacious, casuistic, illegitimate, crippled, failing, feeble, unscientific, afflicted, undernourished, exhausted, differently abled, nonsensical, challenged, sick, unsteady, inconsequent, rotten, lame, unfit, simpleminded, malnourished, worn, unconvincing, weak, gaunt, misleading, half-baked, inconsequential, risky, nutty, wasted, sophistic, tottery, senseless, incomplete, mad, uncomplete, insecure, haggard, insane, decrepit, uncompelling, silent, troubled, crazy, wobbly, frail, unwell, unsound, witless, weak-minded, unbalanced, infirm, unstable, absurd, speculative, debilitated, unsubstantial, harebrained, silence, half-witted, cockeyed, corroded, wildcat, enfeebled, delicate, sickly, specious, fatuous, sickened, run-down, bad, tottering, invalid, incoherent, unarticulated, rickety, loony, worn out, unreasonable, poorly, shallow, fragile, incapacitated, preposterous, fainting
