lilt
Voice's gentle swing
A lilt is a cheerful, rhythmic quality in speech or music—a pleasant rise and fall that gives the impression of lightness: She spoke with an Irish lilt.
The word can describe a bouncy tune or the springy cadence of someone's voice or movement.
To lilt is to speak, sing, or move with such buoyancy.
Rhythmically monotonous speech
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- tuneMusical sequence of notes
- inflectionWord form alteration
intonation · modulation · air · refrain · ballad · ditty · jingle · carol
Accent or sturdy shoe
- burrClinging seed case
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- twangSharp vibrating sound
- IrishOf the Emerald Isle
Scottish · Welsh · Gaelic · inflection · intonation · speech · vernacular · dialect
singsong
Rhythmically monotonous speech
inflection · intonation · modulation · air · refrain · ballad · ditty · jingle · carol · croon
brogue
Accent or sturdy shoe
Irish · Scottish · Welsh · Gaelic · inflection · intonation · speech · vernacular · dialect · pronunciation
swing
Suspended recreational seat
syncopation · pulse · flow · groove · meter · timing · undulation · sway · skip · hop
buoyant
Able to float
jaunty · carefree · lighthearted · effervescent · vivacious · perky · animated · spirited · exuberant · sunny
- vocalizationsspeak, speaking, talking, whisper, shout
- accent skillsaccent training, pronunciation, regional accent, dialect coach, vowel sounds
- dialectregionalisms, vernacular, localisms, rural dialect, patois
- dialect featuresregionalism, localism, colloquialism, vernacular, patois
- poetic soundassonance, alliteration, consonance, rhyme, euphony
- Scotsaye, wee, nae, ken, couldnae
liltmonotone
Single unvarying pitch
drone · flatness · monotony · droning · tunelessness
liltdreariness
State of dispiriting dullness
dullness · lifelessness · flatness · heaviness · glumness