toned
/təʊnd
/adjective
1Having firm and well-defined muscles: her toned physique beautifully toned arms and shoulders...
- She's a martial artist as well, which accounts for the toned body.
- She has a sleek swimmer's body, all muscled up and toned!
- She may be in her mid-thirties but she has beautifully toned arms and shoulders and strong lean legs.
2Having a particular colour or shade; tinted: toned paper richly toned prints [in combination]: bronze-toned light fittings...
- The wall treatment is suggestive of a toned whitewash.
- Both paper brands are not purely white, but are slightly toned.
- She was awarded First Prize for her toned silver prints of leaves.
3 [in combination] Having a musical or vocal sound of a specified pitch, quality, or strength: a rich-toned string instrument a clear-toned soprano voice the deep-toned bass...
- He brought magisterial eloquence to the Prelude to Act 3, with mellow, golden-toned playing from the orchestra's brass.
- The lovely cello solo was delivered with rich-toned authority.
- The pure-toned, elegantly articulated flute solo was truly beautiful.
4Having a particular character or attitude: your responses are lightly toned but very perceptive...
- Other than a few academically toned articles, I have yet to meet or read anyone who will actually back up their assertions with references to the books.
- "Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched," wrote Thomas Cole.
- The singer harshly enunciates the conversationally toned verses.