Toned vs Tonal - What's the difference?
toned | tonal |
(tone)
Having a (specified kind of) tone.
Of or relating to tones or tonality.
(music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
(linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
* 1989 , Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean , page 122:
As adjectives the difference between toned and tonal
is that toned is having a (specified kind of) tone while tonal is of or relating to tones or tonality.As a verb toned
is (tone).As a noun tonal is
an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.toned
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- high-toned
- sweet-toned
Derived terms
* toned paperAnagrams
*tonal
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia tonal)Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* atonalEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* tona, tonalliNoun
(en noun)- When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.