Meaning

3 senses

  1. To accompany as an undertone.

  2. To say or speak in an undertone.

  3. To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. She has blue undertones to her skin.

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  2. I don't like the apologetic undertone of this article.

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  3. There was a pervasive nasty undertone in their writings.

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  4. His warm undertone means that he can pull of gold jewlery.

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Forms

undertones, undertoning, undertoned, undertoned
Base formundertone · to undertone
3rd person singularundertones
Present participleundertoning
Past simpleundertoned
Past participleundertoned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyundertone
he, she, itundertones

Past simpleLesson

all personsundertoned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave undertoned
he, she, ithas undertoned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill undertone

Synonyms

2 synonyms
present as less important:de-emphasizedownplay

Antonyms

2 antonyms
present as less important:accentB1accentuate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
undertakeB2undertakerundertakingunderuseundervalue

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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