falsetto
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register
Types & categories
- head register hypernym
Related & opposite
- falsetto derivation
Sense 2 adjective
artificially high; above the normal voice range
a falsetto voice
Related & opposite
- falsetto derivation
- high-pitched similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | falsetto |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | head register |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | falsetto |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | high-pitched |