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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ton•ic /ˈtɑnɪk/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a medicine that increases mental or physical strength, health, or well-being.
- Foodsoda water with quinine: [uncountable]some gin and tonic.[countable]two tonics.
- Music and Dance[countable] the first degree of a musical scale;
keynote.
adj. - Medicineof or relating to the tone or health of the body, as a medicine.
- Pathology, Physiologyof or relating to the tension of the muscles:a tonic spasm.
- Phoneticsof or relating to tone or accent in speech.
- Music and Danceof or relating to the first tone of a musical scale:a tonic chord.
ton•i•cal•ly, adv. See -ton-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ton•ic (ton′ik),USA pronunciation n. - a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- anything invigorating physically, mentally, or morally:His cheerful greeting was a real tonic.
- See quinine water.
- [Music.]the first degree of the scale;
the keynote. - [Chiefly Eastern New Eng.]soda pop.
- Phoneticsa tonic syllable or accent.
adj. - pertaining to, maintaining, increasing, or restoring the tone or health of the body or an organ, as a medicine.
- invigorating physically, mentally, or morally.
- [Physiol., Pathol.]
- pertaining to tension, as of the muscles.
- marked by continued muscular tension:a tonic spasm.
- using differences in tone or pitch to distinguish between words that are otherwise phonemically identical:a tonic language.
- pertaining to tone or accent in speech.
- Phonetics(of a syllable) bearing the principal stress or accent, usually accompanied by a change in pitch.
- [Music.]
- of or pertaining to a tone or tones.
- pertaining to or founded on the keynote, or first tone, of a musical scale:a tonic chord.
- Greek tonikós pertaining to stretching or tones. See tone, -ic
- 1640–50
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged stimulant, restorative, bracer, pickup.
-tonic, - a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -tonia:catatonic.
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