toneless

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toneless

adjective more toneless · most toneless

  1. Lacking tone or expression. 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 fo
  2. Lacking vitality; listless; lifeless.
  3. Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.

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adj having no tone (in tonal languages)

中文缺乏聲調的 /缺乏声调的 quēfá shēngdiào de

adj lacking tone or expression

中文單調的 /单调的 dāndiào de
Русскийневырази́тельный nevyrazítelʹnyj

adj lacking vitality; listless

Русскийвя́лый vjályj

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@misc{toneless_2026,
  title = {toneless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toneless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}