1.
[syn: tonic, tonal]
2. having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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