intonate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone
please intonate with sadness
Types & categories
- pronounce hypernym
Related & opposite
- tone derivation
- tone derivation
- intonation derivation
Sense 2 verb
recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
The rabbi chanted a prayer
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- intonation derivation
- chanting derivation
- cantillation derivation
- intonation derivation
- chanter derivation
- chant derivation
- intonation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tone |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tone |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | intonation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pronounce |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intonation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chanting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cantillation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intonation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chanter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intonation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sing |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | singsong |