toneless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking tone or expression.
    — And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]
  2. Lacking vitality; listless; lifeless.
  3. Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.

词形变化

more toneless comparative most toneless superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
tonelessly tonelessness

词源

Etymology tree
English tone
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English toneless
From tone + -less.
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