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release, tone ending

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

attack, tone-beginning

a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

noisiness, racketiness

characterized by loud and constant noise

ring

a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"

unison

two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves: "singing in unison"

hush, stillness, still

(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

voice

the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us"

androglossia

a woman's voice with male qualities

silence, quiet

the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"

speechlessness

the property of being speechless

quietness, soundlessness

the property of making no sound

noiselessness

the property of making no noise

musicality, musicalness

the property of sounding like music

texture

the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together; "then another melodic line is added to the texture"

melodiousness, tunefulness

the property of having a melody

harmony

an agreeable sound property

consonance, harmoniousness

the property of sounding harmonious

dissonance

disagreeable sounds

discordance, discord

a harsh mixture of sounds

disharmony, inharmoniousness

a lack of harmony

cacophony

loud confusing disagreeable sounds

pitch

the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

concert pitch, philharmonic pitch, international pitch

the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances; usually assigns 440 Hz to the A above middle C

high pitch, high frequency

a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches

soprano, treble

the pitch range of the highest female voice

tenor

the pitch range of the highest male voice

key

pitch of the voice; "he spoke in a low key"

low pitch, low frequency

a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches

deepness

a low pitch that is loud and voluminous

alto

the pitch range of the lowest female voice

bass

the lowest part of the musical range

nasality

a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators

tone

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

timbre, timber, quality, tone

the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

color, colour

the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

harshness, roughness

harsh or rough to the ear

gruffness, hoarseness, huskiness

a throaty harshness

fullness, mellowness, richness

the property of a sound that has a rich and pleasing timbre

twang, nasal twang

exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy

having the character of a loud deep sound

shrillness, stridence, stridency

having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

volume, loudness, intensity

the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"

forte, fortissimo

(music) with great loudness

softness

a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency

faintness

barely audible

rhythmicity

the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

piano, pianissimo

(music) low loudness

meter, time

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

cadence, cadency

a recurrent rhythmical series

lilt, swing

a jaunty rhythm in music

echo, reverberation, sound reflection

the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped

re-echo

the echo of an echo

register

the timbre characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice

head register, head voice, head tone

the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head

chest register, chest voice, chest tone

the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing

falsetto

a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register

tone, tone of voice

the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"

note

a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"

undertone

a quiet or hushed tone of voice: "spoke in undertones"

prosody, inflection

the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

singsong

a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation

intonation, pitch contour

rise and fall of the voice pitch

intonation pattern

intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements

monotone, drone, droning

an unchanging intonation

stress, emphasis, accent, accentuation

the relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

caesura

a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

rhythm, beat, musical rhythm

the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"

tonic accent, pitch accent

emphasis the results from pitch rather than loudness

word stress, word accent

the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

sentence stress

the distribution of stresses within a sentence

rhythm, speech rhythm

the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"

downbeat

the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)

upbeat

an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

syncopation

a musical rhythm accenting a weak beat

recitative

a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech

arioso

(music) a short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria

transition, modulation

a musical passage moving from one key to another

meter, measure, beat, cadence

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody

a system of versification

sprung rhythm

a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech

rhyme, rime

correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (esp. final sounds)

internal rhyme

a rhyme between words in the same line

alliteration, initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse: "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

consonance, consonant rhyme

the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words

assonance, vowel rhyme

the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

ottava rima

a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

rhyme royal

a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

eye rhyme

an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')

morphophoneme

(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

allophone

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

phoneme

(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

ablaut, gradation

a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

diphthong

a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

accent, speech pattern

distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"

drawl

a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

silence

the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence": "he gestured for silence"

noise conditions

the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel)

tremolo

(music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones

noise pollution, sound pollution

annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise

pierce

sound sharply or shrilly; "The scream pierced the night"

speak

make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"

blow

play or sound a wind instrument; "She blew the horn"

blow

make a sound as if blown; "The whistle blew"

ting

go "ting"

squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak, skriech, skriegh, skreigh

make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door

stridulate, clitter

make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers

racket

make a racket

clatter, clack, brattle

make a rattling sound

drown out

make imperceptible; "The noise from the ice machine drowned out the music"

jingle, jinglejangle, jangle

as of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"

scream

make a loud, piercing sound; "Fighter planes are screaming through the skies"

make noise, resound, noise

emit a noise

splat

give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact

twang

sound with a twang, as of a bowstring

backfire

emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire, as of cars

clang, clangor

make a loud noise, as if striking metal

boom, boom out

make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song"

clank

make a clank

clangor, clangour

make a loud resonant noise

drum, beat, thrum

make a rhythmic sound: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

crepitate, crackle

make a crackling sound; "My Rice Crispies crackled in the bowl"

rattle

make short successive sounds

ruckle

make a hoarse, rattling sound

tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat

make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

glug

make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle: "glasses clinked...and the wine bottles glugged"- Gerald Durrell.

ring out

sound loudly, like a shot

resonate

sound with resonance

sound, go

make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"

blow

sound by having air expelled through a tube; "The trumpets blew"

guggle

make a sound like a liquid that's being poured form a bottle

whish

make a sibilant sound

ping, knock

of car engines, when firing too early

ping

make a short high-pitched sound, as of a bullet striking metal

trump

produce a sound as if from a trumpet

strum, thrum

sound the strings of (a guitar or similar string instrument)

squelch

make a sucking sound

chug

of engines

gong

sound a gong

ting

cause to make a ting

ring, knell

make ring, as of bells etc.; "Ring the bells"

ring, peal

make a ringing sound

ding, dong, dingdong

go "ding dong", like a bell

tintinnabulate

ring or sound like a small bell

toll, peal

ring recurrently; of bells

toll

ring slowly, of bells; "For whom the bell tolls"

knell

ring, as of bells announcing death

rustle

make a dry crackling sound, as of silk or leaves

buzz, bombinate, bombilate

make a buzzing sound

chime

of bells, chimes, and gongs

blast, blare

make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"

snap, crack

as of tightly stretched ropes or fingers

honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot

make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"

crack

make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"

whistle

make whistling sounds; "He lay there, snoring and whistling"

tootle

toot continuously; as of a car horn

resound, echo, ring, reverberate

ring or echo with sound; reverberate; "the hall resounded with laughter"

reecho

echo repeatedly, echo again and again

reecho

repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back

crump, thud, crunch, scrunch

make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants

bong

ring loudly and deeply, as of bells

thud, thump

make a dull sound

clop, clump, clunk, plunk

make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

patter, pitter-patter

make light, rapid and repeated sounds, as of rain

tap, rap, knock, pink

make light, repeated taps on a surface

click, tick

make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"

chatter, click

click repeatedly or uncontrollably, as of teeth

clink

make a high sound, as of champagne glasses during a toast

pop

make a sharp explosive noise

sputter

make an explosive sound

tinkle, tink, clink, chink

make or emit a high tinkling sound

boom, din

make a resonant sound; as of artillery: "His deep voice boomed through the hall."

splash, splosh, slosh, slush

make a splashing sound; of liquids

hum, thrum

sound with a monotonous hum

bleep

emit a single short high-pitched signal, as of apparatus

rumble, grumble

make a low noise, as of thunder

lap, swish, swosh

move with or make or cause to move with or make a whistling or hissing sound, as of liquids

bang

to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound: "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"

ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle

make a babbling, gurgling sound, as of water; "babbling brooks"

whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr

make a soft swishing sound, as of a motor working or wings flapping

drone

make a monotonous low dull sound

deafen

be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"

roll

emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"

high-fidelity, hi-fi

characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction; "a high-fidelity recording"; "a hi-fi system"

plummy

of a voice; affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice"

stereophonic, stereo, two-channel

(electronics) designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels

mono, monophonic, single-channel

(electronics) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel

cackly, squawky

like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg

cacophonous, cacophonic

having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten

grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"

croaking, croaky, guttural

like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs"

jangling, jangly

like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"

gruff, hoarse, husky

deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky:- Virgil Thomson

jarring

making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk"

piercing

loud and sharp; "the piercing shriek of sirens"

euphonious, euphonous

having a pleasant sound; "a euphonious trill of silver laughter"

raucous, strident

unpleasantly loud and harsh

rending, ripping, splitting

resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"

golden

suggestive of gold; "a golden voice"

silvern, silvery

resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"

thundery

accompanied with thunder

inflected

(of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one"

modulated

altered in volume as well as tone or pitch

uninflected

(of the voice) not inflected; "uninflected words"; "a monotonic uninflected voice"

drawling, drawn-out

(used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels

euphonious

(of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident; "her euphonious Southern speech"

velar

produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')

hard

of speech sounds

plosive

produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release with a burst of air (as `p' and `d' in `pit' or `dog')

soft

of speech sounds; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')

palatal, palatalized

produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')

fricative, sibilant, spirant

produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f'. `s', `z', or `th' (in both `thin' and `then'))

consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized, in harmony

involving or characterized by harmony

harmonious

musically pleasing

harmonic, sympathetic

relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"

on-key, true

in tune; accurate in pitch; "a true note"

false, off-key, sour

inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

symphonic, symphonious

harmonious in sound; "the symphonic hum of a million insects"

inharmonious, unharmonious

not in harmony

discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic

lacking in harmony

adenoidal, pinched, nasal

sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"

high, high-pitched

used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency

altissimo

very high

screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing

having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

countertenor, alto

of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor

falsetto

artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice"

peaky, spiky

having or as if having especially high-pitched spots; "absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass

piping

resembling the music of a pipe; "the piping voices of children"

piercing, shrill, sharp

high-pitched and sharp; "piercing screams"; "a shrill whistle"

shrilling(a)

continuous and piercing; "clashing swords and shrilling trumpets"

soprano, treble

having or denoting a high range; "soprano voice"; "soprano sax"; "the boy still had a fine treble voice"; "the treble clef"

sopranino

higher in range than soprano; "a sopranino recorder"

tenor

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

low, low-pitched

used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency

baritone

lower in range than tenor and higher than bass; "a baritone voice"; "baritone oboe"

alto, contralto

of or being the lowest female voice

throaty

sounding as if pronounced low in the throat; "a rich throaty voice"

bass, deep

having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"

contrabass, double-bass

pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range; "contrabass or double-bass clarinet"

long

(phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')

short

(phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

deafening, earsplitting, roaring, thunderous, thundery

loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

murmuring, susurrant, whispering

making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"

grumbling, rumbling

continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder"

monotone, monotonic, monotonous

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

silent, soundless, still

marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"

noiseless

making no sound; "th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time"- Shakespeare

arrhythmic, jerking, jerky, unsteady

not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

rhymed, rimed, rhyming, riming

having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds; "rhymed verse"; "rhyming words"

alliterative

having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable; "alliterative verse"

assonant

having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables

end-rhymed

rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses

unrhymed, unrimed, rhymeless, rimeless

not having rhyme; "writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net"

rhythmical, rhythmic

recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose"

cadenced, cadent

marked by a rhythmical cadence; "the cadenced crunch of marching feet"

chantlike, intoned, singsong

uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking"

syncopated

stressing a normally weak beat

silenced

reduced to silence; "the silenced crowd waited expectantly"

unsilenced

not silenced

fizzing, fizzy

hissing and bubbling

vocalic

being or containing or characterized by vowels; "vocalic sounds"; "the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic"- Walter Scott

vocalic, syllabic

(phonology) of liquids and nasals

consonantal, nonsyllabic, nonvocalic

(phonology) of liquids and nasals

vowellike

having characteristics of a vowel sound; "the vowellike nature of `r'"

consonantal

being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant; "consonantal sounds"; "a consonantal Hebrew text"; "consonantal alliteration"; "a consonantal cluster"

syllabic

consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; (of a consonant sound) not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound; "the syllabic `l' in `riddle' or the syllabic `n' in `botany' when pronounced `bot-n-y'"; (of a vowel sound) dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllable as being the first vowel in a falling diphthong; "the syllabic `o' in `oi'"

nonsyllabic, unsyllabic

not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; (of a consonant sound) accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound as the `n' in `botany' when pronounced `bot-ny'; (of a vowel sound) dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable; i.e. being the second vowel in a falling diphthong as the `i' in `oi'

disyllabic

having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables

monosyllabic

having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable

octosyllabic

having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables

pentasyllabic

having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables

polysyllabic

having or characterized by words of more than three syllables

syllabled

pronounced in syllables

unsyllabled

not articulated in syllables

emphatic, emphasized

spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"

stressed

bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"

accented, heavy, strong

used of syllables

long

(prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration

masculine

(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'"

unstressed, unaccented

not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed"

feminine

(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"

short

(prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

unaccented, light, weak

used of vowels or syllables; pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable"

tonic, accented

used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"

unemphatic

not emphasized

atonic, unaccented

used of syllables; "an atonic syllable carries no stress"

tense

(phonetics) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

constricted

(phonetics) especially tense; especially in some dialects

lax

(phonetics) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

toned

having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "silver-toned"

toneless

lacking in tone or expression; "his toneless mechanical voice"

tonal

(music) having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic

keyed

set to a key or tone

tonic

relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; "tonic harmony"

polytonal

using more than one key or tonality simultaneously; "exciting rhythms and polytonal harmonies"

toned

having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination; "full-toned"; "shrill-toned"; "deep-toned"

suprasegmental

(linguistics) pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound

allophonic

pertaining to allophones

amphoric

the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle; "amphoric breathing indicates a cavity in the lung"

brassy, brasslike

resembling the sound of a brass instrument

consonantal

relating to or having the nature of a consonant

guttural

relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds"

harmonic

of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill

nonharmonic

not harmonic; "a nonharmonic note"

vocalic

relating to or associated with or containing a vowel; "vocalic segments"; "the vocalic ablaut"

isotonic

relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of the well-tempered scale; "isotonic tuning"

phonetic

of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription"

phonemic

of or relating to phonemes of a particular language; "phonemic analysis"

phonic

pertaining to phones or speech sounds

glottal

of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops"

bilabial

of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips; "bilabial fricatives"

tertian

of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system"

accentual

of or pertaining to accent or stress

babbling

continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water: "a babbling brook"

pitched

(of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form: "high-pitched"

shrilly, piercingly

in a shrill voice; "she sang rather shrilly"

polyphonically

in a polyphonic manner; "polyphonically composed"

gutturally

in a guttural manner; "gutturally articulated"

discordantly, unharmoniously

in a discordant manner; "the piece ended discordantly"

atonally

without tonality; "he composes atonally"

in unison

at the same pitch; "they sang in unison"

creakily, creakingly, screakily

in a creaky manner; "the old boat was moving along creakily"

flat

below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"

flip-flap

with repeated strokes and noise; "something going flip-flap in the night"

flop

with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"

hoarsely, huskily

in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely"

unmelodiously

in an unmelodious manner; "she sings rather unmelodiously"

metrically

with regard to meter; "metrically, these poems are matched"

rhythmically

in a rhythmic manner; "the chair rocked rhythmically back and forth"

pit-a-pat, pitty-patty, pitty-pat, pitter-patter

describing a rhythmic beating; "his heart went pit-a-pat"

pit-a-pat, pitty-patty, pitty-pat, pitter-patter

as of footsteps; "he came running pit-a-pat down the hall"

plop, plunk

(informal) with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"

pop

like a pop or with a pop; "everything went pop"

noiselessly, soundlessly

without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door"

tonelessly

in a monotone; "`Come in,' she said tonelessly"