tonal

2 definitions found

tonal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tonal
      adj 1: employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of
             otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"
             [syn: tonic, tonal]
      2: having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation
         to one tone such as a keynote or tonic [ant: atonal,
         unkeyed]

tonal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "tonal":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
     cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chromatic, close, consonant,
     consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, droning,
     enharmonic, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard,
     heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
     lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, monotone,
     monotonic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open,
     oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex,
     rounded, semitonic, semivowel, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous,
     sounded, sounding, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic,
     tense, thick, throaty, toneless, tonic, twangy, unaccented,
     unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless,
     vowel, vowellike, weak, wide