Tone Terms

165826232	Acerbic	harsh or corrosive in tone
165826233	Admiring	to admire or be in awe of something
165826234	Adoring	adoring or appreciating
165826235	Agitated	to be annoyed or aggravated
165826236	Ambivalent	uncertainty and having conflicting attitudes and feelings
165826237	Analytical	using or skilled in using analysis
165826238	Anxious	excited or nervous causing anxiety
165826239	Arrogant	to have a feeling of being better of above the rest to resist help or suggestions
165826240	Austere	stern or cold
165826241	Bitter	very difficult to accept or bear
165826242	Candid	blunt; characterized by directness in manner or speech
165826243	Capricious	determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
165826244	Cautious	to proceed with caution or carefulness
165826245	Complex	made up or complicated parts, not simple
165826246	Conciliatory	compromising, intended or likely to overcome animosity or hostility
165826247	Condemning	expressing strong disapproval of
165826248	Condescending	do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
165826249	Contemplative	persistently thoughtful
165826250	Contemptuous	expressing strong dissapproval of
165826251	Cynical	believing the worse of human nature and motives
165826252	Defiant	boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
165826253	Disapproving	to be against or not approve of an action or opinion
165826254	Discursive	proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
165826255	Disdainful	having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
165826256	Elegiac	expressing sorrow often for something past
165826257	Escapist	a person who escapes into a world of fantasy
165826258	Fascinated	to be overwhelmed with interest
165826259	Flippant	lack of seriousness or care
165826260	Good Natured	having an easygoing and cheeful disposition
165826261	Grudging	petty or reluctant in giving or spending
165826262	Harsh	unpleasantly stern
165826263	Indifferent	to have little interest in either side of a subject
165826264	Intimate	marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
165826265	Irate	feeling or showing extreme anger
165826266	Neutral	to be indifferent; to not have a side in an argument
165826267	Ironic	to opposite of what you expect to happen
165826268	Judicious	marked by the exercise of good judgement or common sense in practical matters
165826269	Laconic	crisp: brief and to the point; effectively cut short
165826270	Mocking	ridiculing
165826271	Nostalgic	looking back
165826272	Objective	undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
165826273	Optimistic	expecting the best in the of all possible words
165826274	Pessimistic	expecting the worst in this worse of all possible worlds
165826275	Pious	reverence to a god/ or God
165826276	Pretentious	making a claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
165826277	Quizzical	mocking; playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
165826278	Remorseful	contrite; feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
165826279	Satirical	exposing human folly to ridicule
165826280	Scornful	expressing extreme discontent
165826281	Self-deprecating	conscious of your own shortcomings
165826282	Serious	concerned with work or important matters tahter than play or tivialities
165826283	Strident	conspicuously and offensively loud
165826284	Superficial	not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually
165826285	Suspenseful	cliff-hanging: (of a situation) charactrized by or causing suspense
165826286	Sympathetic	expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings
165826287	Vindictive	despiteful; showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurtl motivated by spite
165826288	Whimiscal	determined by chance or impulese; or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
165826289	witty	combining clever conception and facetious expression
165826290	Worshiping	idolize: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess
165826291	Wry	dry: humorously sarcasitc or mocking