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# undertone

«undertone» in Mova's school dictionary: **A quiet, low voice used so others cannot hear: speak in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural undertones)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quiet, low voice used so others cannot hear: speak in an undertone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/#m1)

2) A hidden feeling or meaning under the words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character whispers a secret plan to a friend

### examples

- He spoke in an undertone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/#x1)
- She said it in a soft undertone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/#x2)
- There was an angry undertone in his words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «undertone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undertone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.