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. Evelyn Waugh:

   An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

2. Jonathan Whitehead:

   It's a great environment for consumers, consumers typically have narrow pre-agreed risk management remits, but have extended their hedging activities by amount and tenor. Many are pushing hedges out to five years, and that's pretty unusual.

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. 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. 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.