undertoned
undertoned adjective: not sufficiently toned. Also the simple past and past participle of undertone.
Adjective (1)
undertoned (comparative more undertoned, superlative most undertoned)
- Not sufficiently toned.
Adjective (2)
undertoned (not comparable)
- Having an undertone of a specified kind.
- Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista, Boston: Northeastern University Press, page 19
- […] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]2012 August 30, The Oracle
Also used as
undertoned is also the simple past and past participle of undertone.
Forms of undertoned
| comparative | more undertoned |
|---|---|
| superlative | most undertoned |
Origin of undertoned
From under- + toned.
From undertone + -ed.
Questions about undertoned
- What does undertoned mean?
- Undertoned means not sufficiently toned.
- What part of speech is undertoned?
- Undertoned is an adjective.
Words near undertoned in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: undertoned (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undertoned.wav.
Cite this entry: “undertoned.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/undertoned. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.