Synonyms for tenor
ˈtɛn ərtenor

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1. tenor

   Synonyms:
   drift, purport, intent, course, character, sense, stamp, meaning, effect, aim, scope, direction

   Antonyms:
   unmeaningness, purposelessness, irrelevance, discursiveness, incoherence, variance, divergence

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1. tenor, tenor voicenoun

   the adult male singing voice above baritone

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

2. tenornoun

   the pitch range of the highest male voice

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

3. tenornoun

   an adult male with a tenor voice

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

4. tenornoun

   a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life

   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

5. tenor, strainadjective

   the general meaning or substance of an utterance

   "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"

   Synonyms:
   tune, melody, form, pains, straining, strain, melodic line, stress, breed, var., air, variant, nisus, line, tenor voice, stock, striving, nervous strain, melodic phrase, mental strain, song

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

6. tenoradjective

   (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass

   "a tenor sax"

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

7. tenoradjective

   of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

   "tenor voice"

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

Matched Categories

1. • Direction
   • Music
   • Pitch
   • Singer
   • Singing Voice

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1. tenornoun

   Synonyms:
   course, manner, fashion, mood, form, cast, cut, stamp, tone, tendency, character

2. tenornoun

   Synonyms:
   meaning, intent, purport, import, sense, spirit, drift, gist, significance

3. tenornoun

   Synonyms:
   (Music.) highest part (for a man's voice)

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1. List of paraphrases for "tenor":

   sax, content, tone

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How to use tenor in a sentence?

1. Kerry Coombs:

   A lot of things look the same, there are facility upgrades, don’t get me wrong, but the tone and tenor that Luke has brought is special. It’s exciting to be a part of that. You feel that. So, it’s very similar and very different all at the same time.

2. Kathleen Norris:

   None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

3. Emmylou Harris:

   I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

4. Steven Hawkins:

   I agree that it's an uphill slog to see federal legalization, but what we're putting on the table is inevitability, when you get to the point when half of the country has legalized for adult-use, we have now set a stage for inevitability. And that begins to change the tone and tenor in Washington.

5. Thomas Gray:

   Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.