toneless
IPA: tˈoʊnɫʌs
adjective
- Lacking tone or expression.
- Lacking vitality; listless.
- (linguistics) Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.
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Examples of "toneless" in Sentences
- Suffixes in this instance are toneless.
- Nature appears to be toneless and flat.
- They are flat, boring, toneless and instantly forgettable.
- The intransitive prefix is marked only by a toneless nasal.
- Indospheric languages are often toneless and/or highly suffixal.
- However, obviously that criterion can't really apply to the toneless dialects.
- Peairs testified in a flat, toneless drawl, breaking into tears several times.
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