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Toneless vs Boneless - What's the difference?

toneless | boneless |

As adjectives the difference between toneless and boneless

is that toneless is lacking tone or expression while boneless is without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

toneless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lacking tone or expression
  • lacking vitality; listless
  • lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone

    • Derived terms

    * tonelessly

    boneless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
  • *
    • The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
  • (chiefly, British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
  • * 1916 , , (Uneasy Money) , ch. 18:
    • I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
  • * 1931 , (Winston Churchill), House of Commons, 13 May:
    • I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit [...] which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless' Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the ' boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
  • * 2006 , Graham Searjeant, " Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders", (The Times) of London, 11 November:
    • Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
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    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.