Antonyms for tenor
ˈtɛn ərtenor

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1. tenor

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

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tenor, tenor voicenoun

   the adult male singing voice above baritone

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

2. tenornoun

   the pitch range of the highest male voice

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

3. tenornoun

   an adult male with a tenor voice

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

4. tenornoun

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

   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

   Synonyms:
   tenor voice, strain

5. tenor, strainadjective

   the general meaning or substance of an utterance

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

   Antonyms:
   low, low-pitched

   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

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

How to use tenor in a sentence?

1. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

   One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Ron Howard:

   Pavarotti, it's unbelievably difficult to become that kind of tenor at that level. That's not just a gift but years of passion, focus and work.

5. 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.

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