different between coneless vs toneless

English

Etymology

cone +? -less

Adjective

coneless (not comparable)

1. Without a cone.

   a coneless loudspeaker

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• encloses

English

Etymology

tone +? -less

Adjective

toneless (comparative more toneless, superlative most toneless)

1. Lacking tone or expression.
   • 1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 2, p. 71^[1]

     And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 4,^[2]

     The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain.

2. Lacking vitality; listless.
3. (linguistics) Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.

Derived terms

• tonelessly

Translations

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• noteless