Tonal

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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