Tone Words

WORDS THAT DESCRIBE 

TONE 

IN POETRY AND PROSE

• Admiring Afraid Aggravated Aggressive Agitated Allusive Angry Apathetic Apologetic Appreciative Argumentative Arrogant Assertive Assured Audacious Authoritative Awestruck Bilious
• Bitter
• Bland
• Blithe Bombastic Boring
• Brash
• Breezy
• Calm Cantankerous Casual Caustic Cheerful Childish Coarse
• Cold Colloquial Complacent Complimentary Condescending Confessional Confiding Confused Consoling Contemptuous Contentious Contented Contradictory Critical
• Cross
• Cynical Dejected
• Deliberate Depressed Desperate Detached Disagreeable Disappointed Disgusted Disinterested Dismissive Doleful Dour Dramatic Dreamy Dutiful Ecstatic Elegiac Encouraging Enthusiastic Euphoric Excited Facetious Fanciful Fearful Fervent Frenetic Friendly Flippant Frivolous Galvanizing Giddy Grateful Gracious Gregarious Happy
• Harsh Hating Haughty Hesitant Humble Hollow Horrific Humorous Hurt Illusory Impassive Impish Indignant Innocent Inquisitive
• Instructive Ironic
• Joking Joyful Laconic Lighthearted Loud
• Loving Macabre Manipulative Melancholy Miserable Mocking Modest Morbid Naïve Negative Nervous Nihilistic Nostalgic Objective Obsequious Opprobrious Panegyric Paranoid Passive Patronizing Peaceful Pedantic Penitent Persuasive Phlegmatic Pleading Pleasant Poignant Politic Pretentious Prosaic Proud Provocative Punctilious Quaint Querulous Questioning Quiet Quotidian Restrained Ribald Romantic
• Rancorous Raucous Saccharine Sad Salacious Sarcastic Satiric Scornful Seductive Sentimental Serious Sharp Shocking Silly
• Sly
• Smug Somber Soothing Sour Superficial Superior Supportive Surprised Sweet Sympathetic Tautological Tempestuous Terse
• Tired Tortuous Truculent Uneasy Uninterested Upset Urgent Vehement Vexed Vibrant Vitriolic Wanton Whimsical Wistful
• Wry
• Zany Zealous