"tonified" meaning in English

See tonified in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more tonified [comparative], most tonified [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} tonified (comparative more tonified, superlative most tonified)
  1. Highly fashionable or stylish; classy; tony.
    Sense id: en-tonified-en-adj-Wk9DG-hm
  2. (linguistics) relying on tone as a determinant of meaning; tonal. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-tonified-en-adj-MQ4E~sEL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 89 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 90 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 92 2 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} tonified
  1. simple past and past participle of tonify Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: tonify
    Sense id: en-tonified-en-verb-bCIMxcwp
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Lucia Pollock, Run, Annie, Run, →ISBN:",
          "text": "That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Anne MacVicar Grant, J. P. Grant, Letters from the Mountains, →ISBN:",
          "text": "You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Richard Baxter Townshend, Lone Pine : The Story of a Lost Mine:",
          "text": "\"A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is,\" said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Cassidy Coal, A Mile High Romance: The Complete Collection, page 80:",
          "text": "Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read \"Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong.\"",
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          "ref": "1984, George N. Clements, J. Goldsmith, Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, →ISBN, page 75:",
          "text": "The accentual nature of H tones was said to be captured by this formal property not obtaining in “pure tone” languages with completely tonified underlying forms.",
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          "ref": "1985, D. L. Goyvaerts, African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, →ISBN, page 251:",
          "text": "In fact, the claim is inherent in the H vs. ∅ underlying system that only languages that have this kind of opposition (as opposed to completely tonified underlying forms) will have globality.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1989, Hubert Devonish, Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The existence of such processes requires that Djuka be regarded as an incompletely tonified language with underlyingly specified H-tones.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Anne MacVicar Grant, J. P. Grant, Letters from the Mountains, →ISBN:",
          "text": "You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Richard Baxter Townshend, Lone Pine : The Story of a Lost Mine:",
          "text": "\"A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is,\" said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Cassidy Coal, A Mile High Romance: The Complete Collection, page 80:",
          "text": "Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read \"Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong.\"",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1985, D. L. Goyvaerts, African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, →ISBN, page 251:",
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