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tri-toned

tri-toned is the alternative form of tritoned.

Meaning of tritoned

Adjective

tritoned (not comparable)

  1. Having a tritone.
    • Scarcely a score of years after the passing of the Prince of Music, in spite of so many authoritative fillips on the ear, the chromatic cat came back with all its slurred miauling and was heard once more on the musical stage, this time puffed up in an array of hysteric sounds of augmented...1932 February, The Caecilia, volume 59, number 2, page 67, column 2
  2. Having three tones.
    • JamesTen, wearing tritoned Saturn Student Sneakers and a rakish Ruffalo pseudodacron UCLA Youth Shirt, adjusted his heavy pseudospecs and entered the shoddy plastic building housing E.T.T.T.P.U.1965, Frank Anmar, “The Fasterfaster Affair”, in William F. Nolan, editor, The Pseudo-People, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 207

Questions about tri-toned

What is tri-toned the alternative form of?
Tri-toned is the alternative form of tritoned.

Words near tri-toned in the dictionary

  1. tri-state
  2. tri-tiered
  3. tri-tip
  4. tri-tips
  5. tri-tone
  6. tri-toned
  7. tri-unitarianism
  8. tri-unity
  9. tri-v
  10. tri-vid
  11. tri-vids

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