Describing Wordsfor Tone

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Here are some adjectives for tone: nasal, dictatorial, impatient and dictatorial, unwontedly serious, still gruff, crisp but persuasive, louder, conversational, bitter and serious, somehow cautionary, flat but somehow cautionary, proud quiet, utterly reasonable, buoyant mental, kinder but still gruff, humorously furtive, histrionically effeminate, wishful childlike, smoothly reasonable, equitable and utterly reasonable, crisp impersonal, former, wistful, bright compassionate, appropriate meek, flat, disapproving, forcedly cheerful, low, confidential, firmly positive, louder but reflective, significantly weighted, possible audible, casual and complimentary. You can get the definitions of these tone adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to tone (and find more here).

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Words to Describe tone

Below is a list of describing words for tone. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe tone:

nasal, dictatorial impatient and dictatorial unwontedly serious still gruff crisp but persuasive louder, conversational bitter and serious somehow cautionary flat but somehow cautionary proud quiet utterly reasonable buoyant mental kinder but still gruff humorously furtive histrionically effeminate wishful childlike smoothly reasonable equitable and utterly reasonable crisp impersonal former, wistful bright compassionate appropriate meek flat, disapproving forcedly cheerful
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low, confidential firmly positive louder but reflective significantly weighted possible audible casual and complimentary calm and mildly curious surprisingly conversational seductively coy tactfully expressionless properly distressed confident, pedantic slightly louder but reflective wildly facetious terse caustic ferociously triumphant brisk critical cunningly bland airy, confident somewhat peremptory and overbearing peremptory and overbearing calm, conversational incisive and positive mildly conversational oddly respectful warm indulgent enlightened and elegant less mellow mock cheerful ately wispy suddenly meek low and confidential sepulchrally forceful canting, emotional uneven electronic awful, calm incredibly bitter and full cold, ominous flatly disapproving distinct but reverential conspiratorially low slightly snippy soft, benign low and somehow horrible empty dial same, reasonable interested but doubtful still gruff and impatient poisonously reasonable soft but caustic respectful and confidential equally brittle deep, repressive cordial but somewhat lofty uncommonly bold and animated low, unwilling lower, sweeter passionate monotonous emphatic and tragic hearty and almost boyish careless and jocular discontented and haughty haughty and even insulting solemn and rather low confidentially lower sweet but not powerful impressive but conversational deep, autumnal perfectly conversational breathless and mournful slyly eager best festive usual, cynical primeval ochre impassive, distant false cheery abrupt self-confident rude abrupt husky unnatural softly reasonable almost kittenish metal flat merely thoughtful mildly exasperated depressing and drab clear, uninhibited irritatingly casual anxious and accusatory falsely frivolous natural and inquiring almost didactic quiet, kinder less guttural piteously appealing despotically reasonable querulous and husky painfully expressionless unwontedly diplomatic remote, robotic fresh dial violently controversial deep autumnal loudest, severest deferential, coaxing dry, haughty low hopeless cold dutiful former sanguine plaintive and interesting unquestionably republican faint but joyful utterly leaden quietly authoritative sweet, conversational steady, casual particularly docile now loud and harsh casual, quiet calmer, graver cold and rather dry melodious pedantic weirdly conversational flat clinical normally forceful soft and fawning curt positive unexpectedly confidential surprising authoritative vacant, cavalier highly conversational somehow naive soft and somehow naive ually calm animated and expansive calm, run-of-the-mill offensively superior winsome and appealing best frigid chillingly hollow harshly conspiratorial completely unemotional loftily superior businesslike, professional poisonously dry high-pitched, indignant coldly conversational drawn-out, monotonous former jocose remarkably regal suspiciously reasonable soft, unmelodic dour but simple-minded icy, vindictive gently instructive implacable and unforgiving warmer, yellow sharply impatient meaningless mild great or booming polite, conversational calmly conversational key and careful cuttingly impolite nearly despairing tight and scathing usual curatorial affectionately gruff superficial, careless doubtful and meditative quiet and impassive queer, doubtful rasping, truculent impressive, confidential profoundly mournful mighty aristocratic consciously casual speculative and reflective wholly frank and cordial warm, lyrical low and deliberate dry and insolent abrupt and almost sovereign feeble and yet sarcastic abrupt and suspicious forcedly calm severe and menacing contemptuous, compassionate anxious confidential cold but haughty deeply commercial low, mighty quizzical, affectionate easy-going, casual menacing or sarcastic kindest and most saddened pleasantly confident unusually high and hard lowest imperious presumptuous and authoritative more conversational cautious low low and cautious angry, quick calm conversational mellow, warm pure unblemished pleasant authoritative low conspiratorial low, conversational irresistibly persuasive curiously pumped-up grandiose oratorical confident, resonant flat, humorless cheerful businesslike special lifeless oddly conversational blandly conversational weary, dry silken brilliant new, resentful rich and surprisingly musical peculiarly exasperated inescapable military strange, indulgent clearly complimentary gentle and dispassionate conversational husky soft and conjugal reasonable and domestic easy, full cavernous, strange cheerful but also muffled familiar, pedantic decisive, passionate admonitorial new businesslike contemptuous menacing unusually antagonistic different, sympathetic coolly astringent cold and decisive melodious and grave ironical, contemptuous superior and insulting insultingly superior pathetically ingratiating oddly convivial far deeper and slower still flat and expressionless petulant and negative remote, courteous lofty and theological modest or angry wickedly quiet stuffy official decidedly businesslike timid innocent casually insulting steady casual utterly unsurprised infuriatingly serene repulsively intimate maddeningly reasonable best business-as-usual exceedingly cautious and precise new and strictly professional unmistakably prosaic ominously calm different but recognizable ly flat same adamant tight, implacable equally rhetorical quiet nonjudgmental low vigorous singular, confidential quaint, ironical calm expressive continuous ultrasonic same long-familiar dry and mournful petulantly playful self-confident, familiar disagreeable, ironical particularly resolute and solemn particularly resolute moderate and amicable calmly moderate calmly moderate and amicable unpleasantly hostile offensively cold deadly conversational determinedly lighter admirably grave suddenly astringent unnaturally casual devilishly demure suddenly softer tart, stinging uncharacteristically severe extremely judicial playful, enigmatic imperious, absolute mighty defiant low, affectionate highly poetical and abstract mild and conversational successfully muffled partial and denominational odd promiscuous different and gentler calm, masterful quaint, uninterested highest holiest energetic and slightly positive thoughtful, conciliatory sincere and courteous conventionally prosperous deeper and almost awful low modest conventionally solicitous humorously sceptical respectful but familiar usual, sarcastic solemn, dogmatic scornfully familiar sentimental and sympathetic vulgar, insulting cold, sedate serious, peremptory indefinably milder sadly exquisite hard but resolute peremptory elastic mellow soft curious peremptory lugubriously professional mysteriously intimate frosty critical high-pitched and unnatural distressed and plaintive lighter and different less querulous sweetest coaxing angry and tyrannical sharp, grave almost pedagogical gay and cordial soft and almost submissive cold, self-conscious strangely hard and repellent defiantly contemptuous lower but defiantly contemptuous rapid, expressionless eager, defiant loud, resolute hasty, resolute distressed loud interesting, semi-serious bland jocular richer and finer low confidential smugly complacent remarkably peaceable strange mild distinctly insubordinate distant, academic normally genial low and forceful more conciliatory same low same conversational rapid, low flat, angry french nasal low, reverent comparatively gracious deadly high-pitched affectedly pious husky urgent uncomfortably contrite familiar and uncritical less lighthearted captivating musical falsely jocular rather high-pitched and emphatic friendly intimate slightly braver sullen, ashen distinctly coaxing casual and cheerful odd, ignorant carefully reasonable continuous and sleepy loud and lucid curious conversational confidential, gossipy completely autocratic vacant, monotonous distinct and polite ardently persuasive angry and distressed precise demure hospitable, cordial loud and naive deliberate, explanatory sober and virginal hollow, vehement humble and piteous resolute and sincere cool, unenthusiastic surprisingly snappy deeply national rapt, appreciative informal but professional solid, disturbing neutral, contemplative similarly cheerful confidential and persuasive noticeably sharper vaguely foolish unexpectedly somber dry, querulous impersonal, disinterested everlastingly vulgar soft and almost compassionate incredibly supercilious high, tempestuous suddenly explosive deceivingly complimentary grayer, sharper urbanely offhand hatefully formal oddly dead irritatingly imperial suitably submissive insulting, offhand deliberately commonplace cheery and hilarious teasing, familiar mock-conspiratorial low, serious coolly judicious gently neutral authoritative teutonic uncharacteristically unsettled solemn guttural impressive sorceral sturdy, mellifluous mild and respectful smallest conciliatory weary but playful deceptively courteous completely civil appropriately sober arrogant and even offensive frightful and improbable sadly philosophical soft and sadly philosophical serious deadpan dryly confident plummily sympathetic purely conversational thoughtful, distant nicely normal softer, dangerous desperately coaxing casual and genial carefully unemotional stronger, teasing customary dry flat, rasping impersonal feminine low significant inappropriately facetious crazed and manic dry reflective intensely sarcastic colorless, conversational lower but firmer properly imperative somehow maternal different but still peculiar earthy, ruddy faintly muffled habitual obsequious low fundamental good, spirited low and almost sibilant icily curt carefully dispassionate somewhat louder slightly professorial indifferently grateful steadier mellow low and affectionate loud, unsympathetic plaintive and hopeless respectful, wise and honest rude gruff lofty and philosophic indeed solemn and pervasive fierce and sulky equally perceptible rather joyful lower and yet kinder low apologetic non-frictional finest, loudest peculiarly cordial hoarse and dissatisfied substantially apologetic insolent and menacing rather submissive mournful and crestfallen full cordial careless ironical deliberate, silvery bitterly contemptuous solemn but quiet pitifully perplexed meaningly contemptuous curiously masterful uniformly contemptuous frankly proprietary calmly hopeful peculiar, chirpy careless, gossipy lower, plaintive theatrical, hollow tart, short strictly conversational free and usual brief severe angry quick mellow slender flat, keyless strangely wild and alien more irresolute horribly confidential blandly agreeable generally orthodox somewhat protective richest tragic drowsy, monotonous doleful and drowsy exceedingly doleful and drowsy apparently polite casual and discursive would-be-confidential kindest and most would-be-confidential distinct and mournful low loving shrill, theatrical slow and hollow smilingly sarcastic pained, harsh quiet and fervent abrupt and peremptory pathetic and despairing sanctified low dreadfully exalted dry, funereal peculiar ministerial mild and familiar exclusive, refined intimate, self-assured professional, commonplace indifferent, negligent unkind ironical second-hand and artificial sharp, ungenial deeper fundamental peculiar coaxing cool and positive distinct but courteous airy, impersonal low, nerveless low insolent quizzical, playful nameless umber cool, inexorable natural and almost negligent childish, capricious sarcastic indifferent natural and conversational softest and most benevolent tense, vibratory slightly careless stern or menacing careless and business-like stiff, cut-and-dried teasing, hostile severe and impatient confidential and appealing softly jubilant reedy, metallic hard, insulting reedy, painful abstract, inquiring imperious and inflexible usually authoritative indescribably offensive unwarranted and dictatorial steady and almost severe faintly impersonal familiar but faintly impersonal loud and oratorical rapid, good-natured free cordial timid and indistinct submissive and even cheerful loud, cordial low but stubborn arrogant and inquisitorial prosaic and didactic strangely hopeful suspiciously sweet same hushed oddly expressionless meek and sincere gentle, reasonable doubly deep loud and contradictory almost somber low, reluctant old, impetuous dry impersonal deadly low louder, steadier wholly inaudible ridiculously lofty soft and menacing suddenly gruff similarly grim slightly speculative pleasantly conversational cold and accusatory deep and portentous hard and implacable lower, confidential black or iridescent continuous and doleful high and pathetic low meditative prudential and economical almost conversational loud, brisk pleasant, conversational ominously gentle quietly defensive lofty, superior odd harsh sad and perplexed loud and haughty low, eager low, impressive short, querulous flat, menacing almost conspiratorial slightly defensive slow thoughtful easy, conversational slightly apologetic low desolate formally polite and deferential soft and almost conversational lower but intense jokingly ferocious low and despairing properly quaint increasingly dystopian sleepy, reasonable unfeudal infuriatingly snotty utterly unflappable edgy, defensive pleasant lighthearted flat, machinelike indignant, female casual neutral indulgent, teasing exaggeratedly sorrowful coarse sepulchral strangely dispassionate distinctly professorial ever-so-slightly ironic casual but official sarcastic bitchy normal, civil lower, menacing tight dangerous cool balanced pretentious, edifying quiet conversational formal, heroic quiet and hushed purposely deadpan affectionately careless loud vicious high-pitched, shrewish sonorous inflated confidential and piteous funnily judicial pained impatient loud, supercilious quiet, thick nasty equivocal nostalgic, sad eerie, faraway low, compassionate inert, neutral low precise lower and triumphant deeply fraternal grievous and doleful disdainful and insolent especially audible and distinct especially audible low, vindictive sad and liquid same, pleasant nasty flat youthful but professional suddenly husky clear, conversational flat, uncompromising infuriatingly reasonable profoundly formal obsequious, fawning low, febrile troubled, distressed smug, dry maddeningly mild rhythmic, compelling feminine, edgy you-are-hysterical completely interested nearhysterical menacing, low similar husky wild, jaunty sonorous sorceral curious but no-nonsense no\-tably different irritatingly reasonable quiet, conversational similarly accusatory important and somewhat husky relatively down-to-earth cool maternal low, reasonable fearful, querulous new and deeply reflective thin, waterlogged menacing, frightening almost docile quieter, different low and perfectly pleasant sharply angry mildly judicial falsely brisk madden-ingly neutral dangerously icy maddeningly neutral airy, foolish decidedly ironic suspiciously bland plaintive, mournful flat, unequivocal usually business-like mechanically feminine significant, confidential forthright but courteous deep, good-humored undeservedly mellow deeply resentful unnecessarily accusatory dry-cracked-nasal inaudible steady scornful, jaunty mild and fraternal deliberate condescending easy, smug deliberately human unaccountable angry cold and utterly reasonable coolly distant ragged and angry easy, mellifluous wry male purposefully ominous flat, perfunctory savagely peremptory quiet screechy breezy conversational quiet, uncompromising standard, wry formally official low and unbelieving unflappable, normal otherwise buoyant careful noncommittal startlingly personal nice humble loud, mild poetically emotional good-natured authoritative chyly humorous sharp and doctorial faintly repetitive querulous nasal unexpectedly serious dreadfully expressionless same, impersonal determinedly brighter now cool and calm deadly dispassionate respectful, reasonable gravely meticulous tactful mental suddenly \-regal \-regal low expository peculiarly rancid flat, amiable mock confidential quiet, unperturbed annoying dial clear and somewhat high-pitched languid, contemptuous nauseatingly magnanimous exaggeratedly solemn decidedly sarcastic extra cheerful depressed and even mild mild explanatory uncommonly mild and sweet always pure and moral low and saddened funnily compassionate studiously grave brisker, kinder would-be airy recklessly facetious distinctly denominational distinct denominational uninviting and ungracious sharp businesslike smooth half-conscious muffled, neutral low, remorseful loud, brilliant good-natured and rather shy wildly sarcastic proper avuncular dry and ironical sweetly confidential calm, mandatory benevolent conversational disagreeably sophisticated clear and not unmusical vehemently despairing cool and unimpassioned sunnier and calmer low sorrowful anxious and undecided unchanged easy immoral and irreverent satirically indulgent reluctant, cold meek and unprovocative neutral and expository calmly neutral and expository virulently shrewish _quasi_-orchestral brutal _quasi_-orchestral civil but decisive dry and judicial helpless, dissatisfied former business-like gentler anxious hollow, mellow stern, official monotonous, guttural rigid, throaty differently grateful sugary and windy unmodified or uninterrupted mellow, plaintive friendly confident indifferent, uninterested wondrous humble least chromatic awful, thrilling scornful, satirical grave, heartfelt sorrowful, resolute low rigid dissatisfied, uncomfortable dubious and inflexible gentle and unsuspecting testy, morose low indifferent harmonious gray didactic, monotonous tranquil but glacial hopeful, tuneful curiously inexplicable harsh, peremptory suddenly serious and impressive low business-like low awesome plaintive, gentle well-nigh vicious equal and calm sudden unceasing querulously sleepy bitter, wiry hard, unchangeable deepest and most emphatic emphatic and confidential particular ladylike low and abstracted pitiable but submissive martial and masculine contemplatively nasal loud and purposely distinct purposely distinct truly doleful quiet but peremptory wholly frank rich cloudy teasing and ironical cold repressive delicate and theatrical cold, suggestive rather decisive high-minded loyal cold, unmusical peculiarly clear and pleasing slight angry careless and even jocular low and mysterious unrestrained, natural cool and irritating carefully sweet ironical and serious altogether unruffled and pleasant altogether unruffled tremulous, grateful tragic, breathless idyllic and picturesque romantic and exclusively poetical distinct, conversational low, solicitous querulous and plaintive mournful and querulous dogmatical and pompous flexible and affable conventional continental sad, colorless charming meditative affable, indulgent sleepy, gentle paternal and severe singularly social distinctly festival affectionate and tranquil moderate conciliatory moderate peaceful monotonous dreamy wonderful sympathetic sweet humorous gay and brisk

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Words to Describe tone

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "tone" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "tone" are: nasal, dictatorial, impatient and dictatorial, unwontedly serious, still gruff, and crisp but persuasive. There are 995 other words to describe tone listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe tone suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "tone" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many tone adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is tone?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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