Overview of verb intone

The verb intone has 3 senses

• tone, chant, intone -- (utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again")


• chant, intone, intonate, cantillate -- (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer")


• intonate, intone -- (speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness")

Overview of adj intoned

The adj intoned has 1 sense

• chantlike, intoned, singsong -- (uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking")