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Words That Convey Tone (Tone Words)

This document provides lists of words that can be used to describe different tones in writing. The tones covered include positive, negative, irony/sarcasm, sorrow/fear/worry, and neutral. Some examples of positive tone words are hopeful, enthusiastic, and compassionate. Negative tone words include angry, disgusted, and threatening. Words for irony/sarcasm include scornful, sarcastic, and cynical. Sorrow/fear/worry tones are described with words like somber, disturbed, and hopeless. Finally, neutral tone words comprise formal, objective, and factual.

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Words That Convey Tone (Tone Words)

This document provides lists of words that can be used to describe different tones in writing. The tones covered include positive, negative, irony/sarcasm, sorrow/fear/worry, and neutral. Some examples of positive tone words are hopeful, enthusiastic, and compassionate. Negative tone words include angry, disgusted, and threatening. Words for irony/sarcasm include scornful, sarcastic, and cynical. Sorrow/fear/worry tones are described with words like somber, disturbed, and hopeless. Finally, neutral tone words comprise formal, objective, and factual.

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TONE

Language to describe tone

Positive tone/attitude: lighthearted, hopeful, exuberant, enthusiastic, complimentary, confident, cheery,


optimistic, loving, passionate, amused, elated, sympathetic, compassionate, proud

Negative tone/attitude: angry, disgusted, outraged, accusing, condemnatory, furious, wrathful, inflammatory,
irritated, indignant, threatening

Irony/Sarcasm: scornful, disdainful, contemptuous, sarcastic, cynical, critical, facetious, patronizing, satiric,
condescending, sardonic, mock-heroic, bantering, irreverent, mock-serious, taunting, insolent, pompous, ironic,
flippant, grotesque

Sorrow/Fear/Worry: somber, elegiac, melancholic, sad, disturbed, mournful, solemn, serious, apprehensive,
concerned, hopeless, staid, resigned

Neutral tone/attitude words: formal, objective, incredulous, nostalgic, ceremonial, candid, shocked, reminiscent,
restrained, clinical, baffled, sentimental, detached, objective, disbelieving, questioning, urgent, instructive,
matter-of-fact, admonitory, learned, factual, didactic, informative, authoritative

Developing a Tone Vocabulary Another list of tone words:

angry sad sentimental satiric pedantic colloquial


sharp cold fanciful whimsical indignant compassionate
upset urgent complimentary dramatic bantering impartial
silly joking condescending learned flippant insipid
boring poignant sympathetic informative condescending pretentious
afraid detached contemptuous somber patronizing vibrant
happy confused apologetic urgent facetious irreverent
hollow childish humorous confident clinical sentimental
joyful peaceful horrific mock-heroic mock-serious moralistic
allusive mocking sarcastic objective inflammatory complimentary
sweet objective nostalgic diffident benevolent contemptuous
vexed vibrant zealous ironic burlesque sympathetic
tired frivolous irreverent petty detached taunting
bitter audacious benevolent factual cynical angry
dreamy shocking seductive restrained incisive turgid
restrained somber candid elegiac allusive sardonic
proud giddy pitiful disdainful scornful contentious
dramatic provocative didactic lugubrious effusive insolent
candid fanciful concerned
Attitude Words
1. accusatory: charging of wrongdoing
2. apathetic: indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
3. awe: solemn wonder
4. bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
5. cynical: questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
6. condescension: a feeling of superiority
7. callous: unfeeling, insensitive to feelings
8. contemplative: studying, thinking, reflecting on the issue
9. critical: finding fault
10. choleric: hot-tempered, easily angered
11. contemptuous: showing or feeling that something is worthless; lacking respect
12. caustic: intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
13. conventional: lacking spontaneity, originality and individuality
14. disdainful: scornful
15. didactic: author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
16. derisive: ridiculing, mocking
17. earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
18. erudite: learned, polished, scholarly
19. fanciful: using the imagination
20. forthright: directly frank without hesitation
21. gloomy: darkness, sadness, rejection
22. haughty: proud and vain to the point of arrogance
23. indignant: marked by anger aroused by injustice
24. intimate: very familiar
25. judgmental: authoritative and often critical
26. jovial: happy
27. lyrical: expressing inner feelings, emotional, full of images, songlike
28. matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional
29. mocking: treating with contempt or ridicule
30. morose: gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
31. malicious: purposely hurtful
32. objective: unbiased view
33. optimistic: hopeful, cheerful
34. obsequious: polite and obedient only for hope of gain or favor
35. patronizing: air of condescension
36. pessimistic: seeing the worst side of things
37. quizzical: odd, eccentric, amusing
38. ribald: offensive in speech, gesture
39. reverent: treating a subject with honor, respect
40. ridiculing: slightly contemptuous banter
41. reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts
42. sarcastic: sneering, caustic
43. sardonic: scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
44. sincere: without deceit or pretense, genuine
45. solemn: deeply earnest, grave
46. sanguine: optimistic, cheerful
47. whimsical: odd, queer, fantastic

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