TIMBRE Antonyms

• a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

• the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes

• an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

• any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

• musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)

• (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

• punishment for one's actions

• sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

• the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

• electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

• a loud outcry of protest or complaint

• incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks

• the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

• emit a noise

• the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

• the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it

• a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)

• promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

• any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

• a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer

• a high approach shot in golf

• an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

• abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

• the action or manner of throwing something

• throw or toss with a light motion

• move abruptly

• fall or plunge forward

• set to a certain pitch

• sell or offer for sale from place to place

• be at an angle

• heel over

• erect and fasten

• throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

• hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

• lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

• set the level or character of

• an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation

• a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system

• having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

• a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people

• the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities

• financially secure and safe

• in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay

• the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause

• the subjective sensation of hearing something

• mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium

• the sudden occurrence of an audible event

• the audible part of a transmitted signal

• (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

• a large ocean inlet or deep bay

• exercising or showing good judgment

• in excellent physical condition

• logically valid

• having legal efficacy or force

• vigorous or severe

• free from moral defect

• (of sleep) deep and complete

• complete; thorough

• appear in a certain way

• make a certain noise or sound

• give off a certain sound or sounds

• announce by means of a sound

• utter with vibrating vocal chords

• cause to sound

• measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

• the quality of a person's voice

• (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages

• (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

• a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

• a steady sound without overtones

• the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

• a musical interval of two semitones

• the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author

• utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

• vary the pitch of one's speech

• change the color or tone of

• change to a color image

• give a healthy elasticity to

• the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

• the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

• a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance

• expressing in coherent verbal form

• a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated

• something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression

• (metonymy) a singer

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• the ability to speak

• (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

• the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music

• A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.

• give voice to

• utter with vibrating vocal chords