Tone (Definition first) Flashcards by Zack White

Made more severe or intense; incited, especially deliberately, to anger (intensified, heightened)

Aggravated

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Troubled emotionally and usually deeply

Agitated

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Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger; In fear of possible evil (worried, frightful)

Apprehensive

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Affected or marked by low spirits

Dejected

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Arsing from or marked by loss of hope

Despairning

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Afflicted with anxiety, uneasiness, trouble, or grief

Disturbed

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A feeling of evil to come; prophetic

Foreboding

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Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; requiring serious thought

Grave

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Devoid of significance or force; not solid

Hollow

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Grossly offensive to decency or morality; Causing fear

Horrific

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Showing a brooding ill humor; glum

Morose

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Expressing sorrow

Mournful

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Lacking sensation; so frighted as to be unable to move; stunned

Numb

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Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Ominous

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Suffering from paranoia; constantly anxious or afraid

Paranoid

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Bad; Unfortunate

Pitiful

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Arousing affect; Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

Poignant

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Unprotesting acceptance of something: agreement to something, usually given reluctantly but without protest

Resigned

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Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

Sad

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concerned with work or important matters; causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

Serious

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Not affected by a chemical substance; dignified or somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

Sober

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Committed to keeping promises; Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

Solemn

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Lacking brightness or color; grave or gloomy

Somber

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Characterized by dignity and propriety ; sedated

Staid

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Serving to warn; Expressing reproach especially as a corrective

Admonitory

Characterized by indirect references

Allusive

Showing little or no emotion or animation

Apathetic

Emotionally hardened

Callous

Directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; informal or natural, as if caught of guard.

Candid

Scientifically detached; Unemotional

Clinical

Instructive

Didactic

Firm or humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal

Earnest

Characterized by intense emotion

Fervent

Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion (Candid)

Forthright

Not serious in content or attitude

Frivolous

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Haughty

Showing curiosity

Inquisitive

Tastelessly showy; With force

Loud

Expressing deep emotion

Lyrical

Unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or people

Nostalgic

Undistorted by emotion or personal bias

Objective

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Obsequious

Intended to attract notice and impress others

Pretentious

Deeply or seriously thoughtful

Reflective

Serving to bring to mind

Reminiscent

Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

Vexed

Showing sadness

Wistful

Marked by active interest and enthusiasm

Zealous

Harsh or corrosive in tone

Caustic

Treat someone as if they are less intelligent than yourself

Condescending

Expressing extreme contempt (hatred)

Contemptuous

Believing the worst of human nature and motives

Cynical

Expressing extreme contempt (hatred); showing arrogant superiority

Disdainful

Comical in an odd or whimsical manner

Droll

Cleverly amusing in tone

Facetious

Showing inappropriate levity (frivolous; light-minded)

Flippant

Marked by casual disrespect; unreastrained by convention or propriety

Insolent

Showing lack of due respect

Irreverent

Having a nature of or resulting from spite, evil, etc

Maliciuous

Puffed up with vanity

Pompous

Humorously vulgar

Ribald

In a manner intended to ridicule or make fun of

Ridiculing

Ironically humorous; scornful and mocking

Sardonic

Exposing human folly to ridicule

Satiric

Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; practical hardheaded intelligence

Sharp

Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

Whimsical

Humorously sarcastic or mocking

Wry

Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; disposed to venture and take risks

Audacious

Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

Beligerent

Offensively bold

Brash

Easily moved to anger

Choloric

Lacking refinement or cultivation or tastes; Low or inferior quality

Coarse

Containing or imposing condemnation or censure

Condemnatory

State of sulky dissatisfaction

Disgruntedly

Cleverly amusing in tone

Facetious

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Haughty

Angered at something unjust or wrong

Indignant

Arousing to action or rebellion

Inflammatory

Having little substance or significance; Near the surface

Superficial

Inclined to anger or bad feeling with overtones of menace

Surly

Disposed to please

Amiable

Intending or showing kindness; generous

Benevolent

Feeling great rapture or delight

Ecstatic

Joyously unrestrained

Exuberant

Indulging in or influenced by fancy; Existing only in the imagination

Fanciful

Full of or showing high-spiritied merriment

Jovial

Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

Jubilant

Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration

Reverent

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