Synonyms of the word tonal


TONALDIATONIC - KEYED - PITCH - POLYTONAL - TONED - TONIC

tonal

  • adj. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  • adj. (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  • adj. (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise…
  • n. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.

diatonic

  • adj. (music) Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of…

keyed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of key.

pitch

  • n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • n. (geology) Pitchstone.
  • v. To cover or smear with pitch.
  • v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  • n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  • n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
  • n. An effort to sell or promote something.
  • n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
  • n. The angle at which an object sits.
  • n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  • n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • n. The place where a busker performs.
  • n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  • n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
  • n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  • n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  • n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
  • n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
  • v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  • v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  • v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
  • v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
  • n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

polytonal

  • adj. (music) That uses two or more tonalities simultaneously.

toned

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tone.
  • adj. Having a (specified kind of) tone.

tonic

  • adj. (physics, pathology) Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
  • adj. Restorative, curative or invigorating.
  • n. A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
  • n. Tonic water.
  • n. (US, Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
  • n. (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
  • adj. (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
  • adj. Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
  • adj. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound…
  • n. (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
  • n. (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
  • n. (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

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