TONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toned mean? 

• TONED (adjective)
  The adjective TONED has 2 senses:

1. having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination

2. having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: TONED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination

Context example:

deep-toned

Similar:

tonal (having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination

Context example:

silver-toned

Antonym:

toneless (lacking in tone or expression)

 Context examples 

Diana had a voice toned, to my ear, like the cooing of a dove.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Behind it all, however, came that low-pitched, deep-toned hum, which seemed to come from every quarter and to fill the whole air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Initial measurements at this site with the element-identifying alpha particle X-ray spectrometer at the end of Opportunity's arm indicate that bright-toned veins in the rock contain calcium sulfate.

(Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor, NASA)

But in the meantime, talk he must, and it must be his own talk, toned down, of course, so as to be comprehensible to them and so as not to shook them too much.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Marianne can never keep long from that instrument you know, ma'am, said Elinor, endeavouring to smooth away the offence; and I do not much wonder at it; for it is the very best toned piano-forte I ever heard.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Everything supplied an amusement to the high glee of William's mind, and he was full of frolic and joke in the intervals of their higher-toned subjects, all of which ended, if they did not begin, in praise of the Thrush, conjectures how she would be employed, schemes for an action with some superior force, which (supposing the first lieutenant out of the way, and William was not very merciful to the first lieutenant) was to give himself the next step as soon as possible, or speculations upon prize-money, which was to be generously distributed at home, with only the reservation of enough to make the little cottage comfortable, in which he and Fanny were to pass all their middle and later life together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I saw by his look, when he turned to me, that they were always written on the air between me and him; whenever I spoke, they sounded in my voice to his ear, and their echo toned every answer he gave me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)