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antitonal

antitonal adjective: deliberately flouting the conventions of tonality.

Adjective

antitonal (comparative more antitonal, superlative most antitonal)

  1. Deliberately flouting the conventions of tonality.

Forms of antitonal

comparativemore antitonal
superlativemost antitonal

Origin of antitonal

From anti- + tonal.

Questions about antitonal

What does antitonal mean?
Antitonal means deliberately flouting the conventions of tonality.
What part of speech is antitonal?
Antitonal is an adjective.

Words near antitonal in the dictionary

  1. antitobaccoite
  2. antitobaccoites
  3. antitobacconist
  4. antitobacconists
  5. antitoll
  6. antitonal
  7. antitone
  8. antitonic
  9. antitonicity
  10. antitop
  11. antitopoisomerase

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