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. Henry Ford:

   Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

2. 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.

3. John Kasich:

   If the governor does eventually plunge into the race, one thing seems guaranteed : He would be, by a large margin, the Republican field's most provocative voice. No, he likely would n’t win, and he might well get the snot kicked out of him. But more than any other underdog flirting with 2016, John Kasich — defiant, outspoken, critical of conservatism from within — could upend the tenor of the primary season. [ Calendar of a candidate - Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be making stops in South Carolina and New Hampshire at the end of the month. Columbus [ Ohio ] Dispatch :.

4. Marc Fratepietro:

   In some markets issuers can optimize either price, size or tenor. In this market issuers can get all three, there's not a lot of upside to waiting.

5. Marc Fratepietro:

   Market conditions are exceptionally favorable for issuers, in some markets issuers can optimize either price, size or tenor. In this market issuers can get all three.