adjectives used to describe tone
adjectives,
tone
The tone of a piece of writing refers to the stylistic manner in which opinions and emotions are expressed. Consider using these adjectives when analyzing compositions.
This entry continues with a list of adjectives to describe tone.
- admiring
- angry
- apprehensive
- bantering
- benevolent
- biting
- bitter
- burlesque
- candid
- clinical
- colloquial
- compassionate
- complimentary
- concerned
- condescending
- confident
- contemptuous
- contentious
- cynical
- detached
- determined
- didactic
- diffident
- disdainful
- disgusted
- dramatic
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- ecstatic
- effusive
- elegiac
- facetious
- factual
- fanciful
- flippant
- hopeful
- impartial
- incisive
- indignant
- inflammatory
- informative
- insipid
- insolent
- ironic
- irreverent
- learned
- lugubrious
- mock-heroic
- mocking
- mock-serious
- moralistic
- mournful
- neutral
- mournful
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- neutral
- nostalgic
- objective
- patronizing
- pedantic
- petty
- pretentious
- respectful
- restrained
- sarcastic
- sardonic
- satiric
- scholarly
- scornful
- sentimental
- solemn
- somber
- sympathetic
- taunting
- threatening
- turgid
- urbane
- urgent
- vibrant
- whimsical
- worshipful
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