/ˈtoʊnəl/, /ˈtəʊnəl/
- Of or relating to tones or tonality.
- Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
“The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the ep”
- Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
- Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
- An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
“When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.”
Formsmore tonal(comparative) · most tonal(superlative) · tonals(plural) · tona(alternative)